Recent progress in nanostructured smart drug delivery systems for cancer therapy: a review

MI Khan, MI Hossain, MK Hossain… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Traditional treatment approaches for cancer involve intravenous chemotherapy or other
forms of drug delivery. These therapeutic measures suffer from several limitations such as …

Core/shell nanoparticles: classes, properties, synthesis mechanisms, characterization, and applications

R Ghosh Chaudhuri, S Paria - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterials have, by definition, one or more dimension in the nanometer scale (≤ 100
nm) range and subsequently show novel properties from their bulk materials. The synthesis …

Stimuli-responsive polymersomes for biomedical applications

X Hu, Y Zhang, Z Xie, X Jing, A Bellotti, Z Gu - Biomacromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polymersomes, the structural analogues of liposomes, are hollow structures enclosed by a
bilayer membrane made from amphiphilic copolymers. Polymersomes have been proposed …

Immobilization techniques of a photocatalyst into and onto a polymer membrane for photocatalytic activity

HS Zakria, MHD Othman, R Kamaludin, SHSA Kadir… - RSC …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This article reviews the various techniques of immobilizing a photocatalyst into and onto the
polymer membrane for pollutant removal and as a problem solver in handling suspended …

Colloidal capsules: nano-and microcapsules with colloidal particle shells

T Bollhorst, K Rezwan, M Maas - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Utilizing colloidal particles for the assembly of the shell of nano-and microcapsules holds
great promise for the tailor-made design of new functional materials. Increasing research …

Polymersomes for drug delivery: design, formation and characterization

JS Lee, J Feijen - Journal of controlled release, 2012 - Elsevier
In the last past dozen years, polymersomes (Ps) have attracted tremendous attention as
versatile carriers because of their colloidal stability, tunable membrane properties and ability …

Self‐assembled block copolymer aggregates: from micelles to vesicles and their biological applications

A Blanazs, SP Armes, AJ Ryan - Macromolecular rapid …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of amphiphilic block copolymers to self‐assemble in selective solvents has been
widely studied in academia and utilized for various commercial products. The self …

Stimuli-responsive polymersomes for programmed drug delivery

F Meng, Z Zhong, J Feijen - Biomacromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, polymersomes (also referred to as polymeric vesicles) have attracted
rapidly growing interest based on their intriguing aggregation phenomena, cell and virus …

Doxorubicin loaded magnetic polymersomes: theranostic nanocarriers for MR imaging and magneto-chemotherapy

C Sanson, O Diou, J Thevenot, E Ibarboure, A Soum… - ACS …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Hydrophobically modified maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) nanoparticles were encapsulated within the
membrane of poly (trimethylene carbonate)-b-poly (l-glutamic acid)(PTMC-b-PGA) block …

Polymeric micelles of biodegradable diblock copolymers: enhanced encapsulation of hydrophobic drugs

YHA Hussein, M Youssry - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Polymeric micelles are potentially efficient in encapsulating and performing the controlled
release of various hydrophobic drug molecules. Understanding the fundamental …