Light-responsive polymers, especially photochromic ones, are among the most interesting
classes of stimuli-responsive materials. Photochromic polymers can show different stimuli …

Hydrophilic polymers are a major class of polymers in polymer science. They are found in
broad range of applications from superabsorbers to drug-delivery. In recent years, a plethora …

Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers have attracted increased attention as materials that can
facilitate drug and gene delivery in cancer therapy. The present study reports the …

To improve the drug release rate in well-controlled manner, a new pH-sensitive triblock
amphiphilic copolymer methyl poly (ethylene glycol) ether-b-poly (β-amino esters)-b-poly …

The cellular environment offers some unique features to carry out polymerizations under
controlled conditions. Polymerization of monomers in cellular compartments and on the …

Self-healing materials and self-healing mechanisms are two topics that have attracted huge
scientific interest in recent decades. Macromolecular chemistry can provide appropriately …

Co-delivery strategy has been proposed to minimize the amount of each drug and to
achieve the synergistic effect for cancer therapies. A conjugate of the antitumor drug …

Polymersomes are self-assembled polymeric vesicles prepared from amphiphilic block-
copolymers. This chapter provides an overview of their composition, preparation, and …

A tailor-made traceable pH-sensitive drug delivery system based on polyurethane (PU)
microcapsules was fabricated using a facile double-emulsion method containing 3, 3 …

For decades, self-assembled lipid vesicles have been widely used in clinics as nanoscale
delivery systems for various biomedical applications, including treatment of various …