In medicine, nanotechnology has sparked a rapidly growing interest as it promises to solve a
number of issues associated with conventional therapeutic agents, including their poor …

This review focuses on the smart chemistry that has been utilized in develo** polymer-
based drug delivery systems over the past 10 years. We provide a comprehensive overview …

Vinyl polymers have been the focus of intensive research over the past few decades and are
attractive materials owing to their ease of synthesis and their broad diversity of architectures …

Materials which respond to biological cues are the subject of intense research interest due
to their possible application in smart drug delivery vehicles. In particular, novel polymers …

In the last decade, considerable attention has been devoted to the use of biodegradable
polymeric materials as potential drug delivery carriers. However, bioavailability and drug …

Paclitaxel (PTX) and docetaxel (DTX) are key members of taxanes with high anti-tumor
activity against various cancer cells. These chemotherapeutic agents suffer from a number of …

Polymersomes are stable vesicles prepared from amphiphilic polymers and are more stable
compared with liposomes. Although these nanovesicles have many attractive properties for …

Conformational transition of proteins and peptides into highly stable, β-sheet-rich structures
is observed in many amyloid-associated neurodegenerative disorders, yet the precise …

Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanosystems that can respond to biological stimuli such as pH,
temperature, glucose, enzymes or redox conditions have been extensively explored for …

The near-infrared (NIR) region (700–1100 nm) is the so-called transparency “therapeutic
window” for biological applications owing to its deeper tissue penetration and minimal …