Recent advances of the constitutive models of smart materials—hydrogels and shape memory polymers

R Huang, S Zheng, Z Liu, TY Ng - International Journal of Applied …, 2020 - World Scientific
Hydrogels and shape memory polymers (SMPs) possess excellent and interesting
properties that may be harnessed for future applications. However, this is not achievable if …

Injectable thermoresponsive hydrogels for cancer therapy: challenges and prospects

S Tanga, M Aucamp, P Ramburrun - Gels, 2023 - mdpi.com
The enervating side effects of chemotherapeutic drugs have necessitated the use of targeted
drug delivery in cancer therapy. To that end, thermoresponsive hydrogels have been …

Hydrogel nanoarchitectonics: an evolving paradigm for ultrasensitive biosensing

ZS Nishat, T Hossain, MN Islam, HP Phan, MA Wahab… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of nanoarchitectonics and hydrogel into conventional biosensing platforms
offers the opportunities to design physically and chemically controlled and optimized soft …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress and advances of multi-stimuli-responsive dendrimers in drug delivery for cancer treatment

NTT Le, TNQ Nguyen, VD Cao, DT Hoang, VC Ngo… - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Despite the fact that nanocarriers as drug delivery systems overcome the limitation of
chemotherapy, the leakage of encapsulated drugs during the delivery process to the target …

Bio-inspired hydrogel actuator with rapid self-strengthening behavior

Q Liu, X Wang, Y Hou, Y Cheng, J Zhang, L **
MS Kalairaj, H Banerjee, KS Kumar, KG Lopez… - …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Valves are largely useful for treatment assistance devices, eg, supporting fluid circulation
movement in the human body. However, the valves presently used in biomedical …