Over the past few decades, with the development of science and technology, the field of
biomedicine has rapidly developed, especially with respect to biomedical materials. Low …

Hydrogel scaffolds that can repair or regrow damaged biological tissue have great potential
for the treatment of injury and disease. These biomaterials are widely used in the tissue …

In situ-forming injectable hydrogels are smart biomaterials that can be implanted into living
bodies with minimal invasion. Due to pioneer work of Prof. Sung Wan Kim in this field …

Over the past decades, significant progress has been made in the field of hydrogels as
functional biomaterials. Biomedical application of hydrogels was initially hindered by the …

Over the past 25years many interesting biomedical uses have been proposed for stimuli-
responsive polymers, including uses in diagnostics, drug delivery, tissue engineering …

Among modern drug formulations, stimuli-responsive hydrogels also called “smart
hydrogels” deserve a special attention. The basic feature of this system is the ability to …

This article reviews the state-of-the art in responsive polymer systems for controlled drug
delivery applications. The paper describes different types of stimuli-sensitive systems and …

A concentrated fish soup could be gelled in the winter and re-solled upon heating. In
contrast, some synthetic copolymers exhibit an inverse sol–gel transition with spontaneous …

Aqueous polymer solutions that are transformed into gels by changes in environmental
conditions, such as temperature and pH, thus resulting in in situ hydrogel formation, have …

Stimuli-sensitive block copolymer hydrogels, which are reversible polymer networks formed
by physical interactions and exhibit a sol–gel phase-transition in response to external …