Materials for oral delivery of proteins and peptides

TD Brown, KA Whitehead, S Mitragotri - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Throughout history, oral administration has been regarded as the most convenient mode of
drug delivery, as it requires minimal expertise and invasiveness. Although oral delivery …

Advanced biomedical hydrogels: molecular architecture and its impact on medical applications

JT Peters, ME Wechsler… - Regenerative Biomaterials, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Hydrogels are cross-linked polymeric networks swollen in water, physiological aqueous
solutions or biological fluids. They are synthesized by a wide range of polymerization …

Interpenetrating polymer networks: So happy together?

MS Silverstein - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
A typical description of interpenetrating polymer networks (IPN) can be surprisingly simple,
systems that consist of two crosslinked polymer networks that are physically entangled but …

Glucose sensing with phenylboronic acid functionalized hydrogel-based optical diffusers

M Elsherif, MU Hassan, AK Yetisen, H Butt - Acs Nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Phenylboronic acids have emerged as synthetic receptors that can reversibly bind to cis-
diols of glucose molecules. The incorporation of phenylboronic acids in hydrogels offers …

Polymeric hydrogels as technology platform for drug delivery applications

A Sosnik, KP Seremeta - Gels, 2017 - mdpi.com
Hydrogels have become key players in the field of drug delivery owing to their great
versatility in terms of composition and adjustability to various administration routes, from …

Synthetic polymeric gel

A Barui - Polymeric Gels, 2018 - Elsevier
Synthetic polymer gels possess unique combination of acceptable biocompatibility with
tailorable mechanical and degradation properties. They can be synthesized by several …

Synthesis and characterization of new interpenetrated hydrogels from N-isopropylacrylamide, 2-oxazoline macromonomer and acrylamide

J Rengifo, S Zschoche, B Voit, JC Rueda - European Polymer Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
New interpenetrated hydrogels (IPN), sensitive to pH and temperature, were synthesized by
sequential free radical polymerizations in aqueous medium. In the first stage, a …

[HTML][HTML] High solar water droplet evaporation rates from Actinocyclus sp. diatom frustules decorated with silver nanoparticles

J Wu, GJ Smith, RG Buckley, A Koo… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar vapour generation technology has emerged as a promising approach for reducing the
global problem of water shortage issues via the solar water interfacial evaporation technique …

Soft matter: rubber and networks

GB McKenna - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Rubber networks are important and form the basis for materials with properties ranging from
rubber tires to super absorbents and contact lenses. The development of the entropy ideas …

Bioinspired, mechanically robust chemiresistor for inline volatile organic compounds sensing

W Xu, D Ravichandran, S Jambhulkar… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There are advantages to polymer/nanoparticle composite‐based volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) sensors, such as high chemical and physical stability, operability under …