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Bioengineered Textiles and Nonwovens – the convergence of bio-miniaturisation and electroactive conductive polymers for assistive healthcare, portable power and design-led wearable technology [PDF]

, 2009
Today, there is an opportunity to bring together creative design activities to exploit the responsive and adaptive ‘smart’ materials that are a result of rapid development in electro, photo active polymers or OFEDs (organic thin film electronic devices),
Oliver, Raymond, Tillotson, Jennifer, Toomey, Anne   +2 more
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The potential of additive manufacturing in the smart factory industrial 4.0: A review [PDF]

, 2019
Additive manufacturing (AM) or three-dimensional (3D) printing has introduced a novel production method in design, manufacturing, and distribution to end-users.
Dehghanghadikolaei, Amir, Emamian, Sattar S., Fotovvati, Behzad, Gisario, Annamaria, Mehrpouya, Mehrsha, Vosooghnia, Alireza   +5 more
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Small interfering RNA delivery to the neurons near the amyloid plaques for improved treatment of Alzheimer׳s disease

Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2019
Gene therapy represents a promising treatment for the Alzheimer׳s disease (AD). However, gene delivery specific to brain lesions through systemic administration remains big challenge.
Qian Guo, Xiaoyao Zheng, Peng Yang, Xiaoying Pang, Kang Qian, Pengzhen Wang, Shuting Xu, Dongyu Sheng, Liuchang Wang, Jinxu Cao, Wei Lu, Qizhi Zhang, Xinguo Jiang   +12 more
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Smart Polymeric Nanoparticles in Cancer Immunotherapy

Pharmaceutics, 2023
Cancer develops with unexpected mutations and causes death in many patients. Among the different cancer treatment strategies, immunotherapy is promising with the benefits of high specificity and accuracy, as well as modulating immune responses ...
Zhecheng Yu, Xingyue Shen, Han Yu, Haohong Tu, Chuda Chittasupho, Yunqi Zhao   +5 more
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Automating the application of smart materials for protein crystallization [PDF]

, 2015
The fabrication and validation of the first semi-liquid nonprotein nucleating agent to be administered automatically to crystallization trials is reported. This research builds upon prior demonstration of the suitability of molecularly imprinted polymers
Asanithi, Asherie, Caffrey, Chayen, Curcio, D'Arcy, D'Arcy, EL-Sharif, Frenkel, Georgiev, Gorrec, Hazim F. EL-Sharif, Kertis, Khurshid, Lata Govada, Liao, McPherson, Naomi E. Chayen, Newman, Nollert, Page, Rong, Sahir Khurshid, Saridakis, Saridakis, Shaw Stewart, Shim, Subrayal M. Reddy, Sugahara, Thakur, Zheng   +30 more
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A new approach to thermal responsivity and hydrodynamics of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in aqueous solution: all-atom and mesoscopic simulations

Materials Research Express, 2021
In this study, the impact of chemical and physical characteristics of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAm) in water on its thermoresponsive behavior and aggregation was investigated via all-atom and mesoscopic simulations.
Sajad Rasouli, Mohammad Reza Moghbeli, Seyed Majid Hashemianzadeh   +2 more
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Properties of polypyrrole polyvinilsulfate films for dual actuator sensing systems [PDF]

, 2017
One of the challenges of modern science is the development of actuators able to sense working conditions while actuation, mimicking the way in which biological organs work. Actuation of those organs includes nervous (electric) pulses dense reactive gels,
Fernández Otero, Toribio, Pascual Carrión, Víctor Hugo, Schumacher, Johanna   +2 more
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Cellulose nanocrystals in smart and stimuli-responsive materials: a review

Materials Today Advances, 2020
“Smart” stimuli-responsive materials have been the subject of decades of research because of their versatility and particularly their use in medical and sensing applications.
R. Nasseri, C.P. Deutschman, L. Han, M.A. Pope, K.C. Tam   +4 more
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Design of acrylamide-based thermoresponsive copolymer with potential capability for physical network formation in water: a molecular dynamics study

Materials Research Express, 2022
In this work, a new smart copolymer of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)- b -polyacrylamide- b -poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAm- b -PAM- b -PNIPAm) was designed as an efficient thermo-sensitive polymer with a potential for formation a physical network ...
Sajad Rasouli, Mohammad Reza Moghbeli, Seyed Majid Hashemianzadeh   +2 more
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Smart systems related to polypeptide sequences [PDF]

, 2016
Increasing interest for the application of polypeptide-based smart systems in the biomedical field has developed due to the advantages given by the peptidic sequence.
Franco García, María Lourdes, Puiggalí Bellalta, Jordi, Valle Mendoza, Luis Javier del   +2 more
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