Smart polymers for cell therapy and precision medicine [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical Science, 2019 Soft materials have been developed very rapidly in the biomedical field over the past 10 years because of advances in medical devices, cell therapy, and 3D printing for precision medicine. Smart polymers are one category of soft materials that respond to
Hung-Jin Huang +3 more
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Stimuli-Responsive Drug Release from Smart Polymers [PDF]
Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 2019 Over the past 10 years, stimuli-responsive polymeric biomaterials have emerged as effective systems for the delivery of therapeutics. Persistent with ongoing efforts to minimize adverse effects, stimuli-responsive biomaterials are designed to release in ...
Carlos M. Wells +5 more
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Smart Polymers for Soft Materials: From Solution Processing to Organic Solids. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2023 Polymeric materials are ubiquitous in our everyday life, where they find a broad range of uses—spanning across common household items to advanced materials for modern technologies.
Mukherji D, Kremer K.
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Redox Responsive Copolyoxalate Smart Polymers for Inflammation and Other Aging-Associated Diseases. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2021 Polyoxalate (POx) and copolyoxalate (CPOx) smart polymers are topics of interest the field of inflammation. This is due to their drug delivery ability and their potential to target reactive oxygen species (ROS) and to accommodate small molecules such as ...
Swami Vetha BS, Adam AG, Aileru A.
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Electroactive Smart Polymers for Biomedical Applications. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2019 The flexibility in polymer properties has allowed the development of a broad range of materials with electroactivity, such as intrinsically conductive conjugated polymers, percolated conductive composites, and ionic conductive hydrogels.
Palza H, Zapata PA, Angulo-Pineda C.
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Simple Surface Modification of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) via Surface Segregating Smart Polymers for Biomicrofluidics. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) is likely the most popular material for microfluidic devices in lab-on-a-chip and other biomedical applications. However, the hydrophobicity of PDMS leads to non-specific adsorption of proteins and other molecules such as ...
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Smart polymers for the controlled delivery of drugs – a concise overview [PDF]
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2014 Smart polymers have enormous potential in various applications. In particular, smart polymeric drug delivery systems have been explored as “intelligent” delivery systems able to release, at the appropriate time and site of action, entrapped drugs in ...
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Smart Polymers in Nasal Drug Delivery. [PDF]
Indian J Pharm Sci, 2015 Nasal drug delivery has now been recognized as a promising route for drug delivery due to its capability of transporting a drug to systemic circulation and central nervous system.
Chonkar A, Nayak U, Udupa N.
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Smart and Biodegradable Polymers in Tissue Engineering and Interventional Devices: A Brief Review. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)Recent advancements in polymer science have catalyzed a transformative shift in biomedical engineering, particularly through the development of biodegradable and smart polymers.
Dallaev R.
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Four-Dimensional Printing Hierarchy Scaffolds with Highly Biocompatible Smart Polymers for Tissue Engineering Applications. [PDF]
Tissue Eng Part C Methods, 2016 Miao S +4 more
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