Smart stimuli-responsive chitosan hydrogel for drug delivery: A review

B Tian, J Liu - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023 - Elsevier
Smart stimuli-responsive materials can respond to different signals (pH, temperature, light,
electricity, etc.), and they have become a hot research topic for drug delivery. As a …

Smart hydrogels for advanced drug delivery systems

A Bordbar-Khiabani, M Gasik - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Since the last few decades, the development of smart hydrogels, which can respond to
stimuli and adapt their responses based on external cues from their environments, has …

Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanocarriers for drug delivery, imaging, and theragnosis

SS Das, P Bharadwaj, M Bilal, M Barani, A Rahdar… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the past few decades, polymeric nanocarriers have been recognized as promising tools
and have gained attention from researchers for their potential to efficiently deliver bioactive …

[HTML][HTML] A review of techniques for the application of bioactive coatings on metal-based implants to achieve controlled release of active ingredients

KA Kravanja, M Finšgar - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Metallic implants have the disadvantage of being insufficiently biologically active despite
their good mechanical properties and general affordability. Therefore, their bone growth at …

Composites of polymer hydrogels and nanoparticulate systems for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications

F Zhao, D Yao, R Guo, L Deng, A Dong, J Zhang - Nanomaterials, 2015 - mdpi.com
Due to their unique structures and properties, three-dimensional hydrogels and
nanostructured particles have been widely studied and shown a very high potential for …

Advances in porous chitosan-based composite hydrogels: Synthesis and applications

ES Dragan, MV Dinu - Reactive and Functional Polymers, 2020 - Elsevier
Chitosan (CS) as the only polycation coming from renewable resources is endowed with
intrinsic valuable properties, such as: biocompatibility, biodegradability, low cost, easy …

Recent advances in nano scaffolds for bone repair

H Yi, F Ur Rehman, C Zhao, B Liu, N He - Bone research, 2016 - nature.com
Biomedical applications of nanomaterials are exponentially increasing every year due to
analogy to various cell receptors, ligands, structural proteins, and genetic materials (that is …

Preparation, properties and drug controlled release of chitin-based hydrogels: An updated review

J Liao, B Hou, H Huang - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2022 - Elsevier
Chitin, as the second abundant biopolymers on earth after cellulose, has been used for
synthesis of hydrogels in a wide range of applications due to its biocompatibility …

Functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles and biomedical applications

TTH Thi, TNQ Nguyen, DT Hoang, DH Nguyen - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Since the first report in early 1990s, mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have
progressively attracted the attention of scientists due to their potential applications in physic …

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles for stimuli-responsive controlled drug delivery: advances, challenges, and outlook

Y Song, Y Li, Q Xu, Z Liu - International journal of nanomedicine, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
With the development of nanotechnology, the application of nanomaterials in the field of
drug delivery has attracted much attention in the past decades. Mesoporous silica …