Thermoresponsive Star Dendronized Polymers as Smart Nanoboxes [PDF]
MoleculesStar polymers with dense shell structures exhibit unique advantages in molecule encapsulation. The incorporation of dendronized polymers as arms into star polymers enables the formation of spherical core–shell structures with high-density chain stacking,
Ze Qiao, Yi Yao, Afang Zhang, Wen Li
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Constrained thermoresponsive polymers – new insights into fundamentals and applications [PDF]
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021 In the last decades, numerous stimuli-responsive polymers have been developed and investigated regarding their switching properties. In particular, thermoresponsive polymers, which form a miscibility gap with the ambient solvent with a lower or upper ...
Patricia Flemming +3 more
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Pharmacokinetics of Intramuscularly Administered Thermoresponsive Polymers. [PDF]
Adv Healthc Mater, 2022 AbstractAqueous solutions of some polymers exhibit a lower critical solution temperature (LCST); that is, they form phase‐separated aggregates when heated above a threshold temperature. Such polymers found many promising (bio)medical applications, including in situ thermogelling with controlled drug release, polymer‐supported radiotherapy ...
Groborz O +24 more
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Programed Thermoresponsive Polymers with Cleavage-Induced Phase Transition [PDF]
Molecules, 2022 A new programed upper critical solution temperature-type thermoresponsive polymer was developed using water-soluble anionic polymer conjugates derived from polyallylamine and phthalic acid with cleavage-induced phase transition property. Intrinsic charge
Yukiya Kitayama +4 more
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Studies on thermoresponsive polymers: Phase behaviour, drug delivery and biomedical applications
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2015 The present review aims to highlight the applications of thermoresponsive polymers. Thermo-responsive polymers show a sharp change in properties upon a small or modest change in temperature. This behaviour can be utilized for the preparation of so-called
Arijit Gandhi +3 more
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Entropy Rules: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Model Oligomers for Thermoresponsive Polymers [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 We attempted to attain atomic-scale insights into the mechanism of the heat-induced phase transition of two thermoresponsive polymers containing amide groups, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) and poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline) (PIPOZ), and we ...
Alexander Kantardjiev, Petko M. Ivanov
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Intrinsically Thermoresponsive Hydrogels from Molecularly Engineered Chitosan [PDF]
GelsThermoresponsive chitosan hydrogels hold significant promise for advancing biomedical technologies, yet their frequent reliance on petroleum-based polymers raises biosafety and environmental concerns.
Xiaohan Zha +6 more
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Thermoresponsive and Fluorescent Polymers: From Nanothermometers to Smart Drug Delivery Systems for Theranostics Against Cancer [PDF]
PharmaceuticsThis mini-review article is focused on polymeric materials that comprise thermoresponsive and fluorescent organic units. The combination of fluorescent clusters/dots embedded in or grafted with polymers is not considered in this article.
Mirian A. González-Ayón +3 more
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Amphiphilic Thermoresponsive Triblock PLA-PEG-PLA and Diblock mPEG-PLA Copolymers for Controlled Deferoxamine Delivery [PDF]
GelsThis study focuses on the synthesis and characterization of thermoresponsive hydrogels of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), PLA–PEG copolymers, aiming at the targeted and controlled release of deferoxamine (DFO), a clinically ...
Nikolaos D. Bikiaris +6 more
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Frontiers in Nanotechnology, 2023 Polymers exhibiting thermoresponsive behavior above a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) undergo a coil-to-globule phase transition that has many biomedical applications, including biosensing, the control of release devices, and gene or drug ...
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