Strategies to improve micelle stability for drug delivery

Y Lu, E Zhang, J Yang, Z Cao - Nano research, 2018 - Springer
Micelles have been studied as drug delivery carriers for decades. Their use can potentially
result in high drug accumulation at the target site through the enhanced permeability and …

Polymerization of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, and other alkylene oxides: synthesis, novel polymer architectures, and bioconjugation

J Herzberger, K Niederer, H Pohlit, J Seiwert… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The review summarizes current trends and developments in the polymerization of alkylene
oxides in the last two decades since 1995, with a particular focus on the most important …

A biodegradable nanocapsule delivers a Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex for in vivo genome editing

G Chen, AA Abdeen, Y Wang, PK Shahi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Delivery technologies for the CRISPR-Cas9 (CRISPR, clustered regularly interspaced short
palindromic repeats) gene editing system often require viral vectors, which pose safety …

New generation cadmium-free quantum dots for biophotonics and nanomedicine

G Xu, S Zeng, B Zhang, MT Swihart, KT Yong… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This review summarizes recent progress in the design and applications of cadmium-free
quantum dots (Cd-free QDs), with an emphasis on their role in biophotonics and …

Tumor targeting strategies of smart fluorescent nanoparticles and their applications in cancer diagnosis and treatment

J He, C Li, L Ding, Y Huang, X Yin, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Advantages such as strong signal strength, resistance to photobleaching, tunable
fluorescence emissions, high sensitivity, and biocompatibility are the driving forces for the …

Harnessing amphiphilic polymeric micelles for diagnostic and therapeutic applications: Breakthroughs and bottlenecks

J Kaur, V Mishra, SK Singh, M Gulati, B Kapoor… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Amphiphilic block copolymers are widely utilized in the design of formulations owing to their
unique physicochemical properties, flexible structures and functional chemistry. Amphiphilic …

Neuroendocrine tumor‐targeted upconversion nanoparticle‐based micelles for simultaneous nir‐controlled combination chemotherapy and photodynamic therapy …

G Chen, R Jaskula‐Sztul, CR Esquibel… - Advanced functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Although neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are slow growing, they are frequently metastatic at
the time of discovery and no longer amenable to curative surgery, emphasizing the need for …

Polymer-ligated nanocrystals enabled by nonlinear block copolymer nanoreactors: Synthesis, properties, and applications

Y Liu, J Wang, M Zhang, H Li, Z Lin - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
The past several decades have witnessed substantial advances in synthesis and self-
assembly of inorganic nanocrystals (NCs) due largely to their size-and shape-dependent …

Recent development of unimolecular micelles as functional materials and applications

X Fan, Z Li, XJ Loh - Polymer Chemistry, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Unimolecular micelles have attracted increasing attention due to their high functionality,
encapsulation and site specific confinement capabilities in various applications. Compared …

Magnetic Nanoliposomes as in Situ Microbubble Bombers for Multimodality Image-Guided Cancer Theranostics

Y Liu, F Yang, C Yuan, M Li, T Wang, B Chen, J Jin… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nanosized drug delivery systems have offered promising approaches for cancer
theranostics. However, few are effective to simultaneously maximize tumor-specific uptake …