Star polymers

JM Ren, TG McKenzie, Q Fu, EHH Wong, J Xu… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in controlled/living polymerization techniques and highly efficient coupling
chemistries have enabled the facile synthesis of complex polymer architectures with …

Ring opening polymerization of α-amino acids: advances in synthesis, architecture and applications of polypeptides and their hybrids

AR Mazo, S Allison-Logan, F Karimi… - Chemical society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Polypeptides have attracted considerable attention in recent decades due to their inherent
biodegradability and tunable cytocompatibility. Macromolecular design in conjunction with …

Combating multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria with structurally nanoengineered antimicrobial peptide polymers

SJ Lam, NM O'Brien-Simpson, N Pantarat… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
With the recent emergence of reports on resistant Gram-negative 'superbugs', infections
caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacteria have been named as one of …

Antibiofouling polymer interfaces: poly (ethylene glycol) and other promising candidates

S Lowe, NM O'Brien-Simpson, LA Connal - Polymer Chemistry, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Nonspecific protein adsorption and/or microbial adsorption on biomedical materials
adversely affects the efficacy of a range of biomedical systems, from implants and …

Antimicrobial polymeric nanoparticles

SJ Lam, EHH Wong, C Boyer, GG Qiao - Progress in polymer science, 2018 - Elsevier
Currently, infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria have reached critical levels.
Thus, various approaches are being explored for the development of new and effective …

Star polymers: Advances in biomedical applications

W Wu, W Wang, J Li - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, star polymers have been widely used in biomedical applications such
as drug delivery, gene delivery, tissue engineering, diagnosis, medical devices, and …

Rational construction of polycystine-based nanoparticles for biomedical applications

J Chen, J Yang, J Ding - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Polypeptide-based nanoparticles are one of the promising excipients of nanomedicines due
to their excellent biosafety and flexible modification. Among all the types of polypeptide …

Biomolecules-derived biomaterials

LP Datta, S Manchineella, T Govindaraju - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Human civilization has witnessed the use of materials-derived from biomolecules of plants
and animal origin for biomedical applications since ancient era. In recent years, precision …

Stimuli responsive synthetic polypeptides derived from N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) polymerisation

J Huang, A Heise - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The progress in NCA polymerisation combined with advanced orthogonal functionalization
techniques as well as the integration with other controlled polymerisation techniques …

From gas release to foam synthesis, the second breath of blowing agents

G Coste, C Negrell, S Caillol - European Polymer Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
The increasing concern about the environmental impact of physical blowing agents (PBAs)
favours the use of chemical blowing agents (CBAs) to replace controversial PBAs. Blowing …