Strategies to improve micelle stability for drug delivery

Y Lu, E Zhang, J Yang, Z Cao - Nano research, 2018 - Springer
Micelles have been studied as drug delivery carriers for decades. Their use can potentially
result in high drug accumulation at the target site through the enhanced permeability and …

Activated ester containing polymers: opportunities and challenges for the design of functional macromolecules

A Das, P Theato - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Rapidly growing demand of functional polymers in various interdisciplinary areas of
research has accentuated the need for modern synthetic tools to develop advanced …

Redox-responsive polymers for drug delivery: from molecular design to applications

M Huo, J Yuan, L Tao, Y Wei - Polymer Chemistry, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Glutathione has been regarded as a significant signal for distinguishing between tumor and
normal tissue. Recently, reactive oxygen species have attracted much attention for their …

Bioapplications of RAFT polymerization

C Boyer, V Bulmus, TP Davis, V Ladmiral, J Liu… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
A living radical polymerization (LRP) is a free radical polymerization that aims at displaying
living character,(ie, does not terminate or transfer and is able to continue polymerization …

Design and development of polymeric micelles with cleavable links for intracellular drug delivery

H Wei, RX Zhuo, XZ Zhang - Progress in polymer Science, 2013 - Elsevier
Driven by the urgent need in practical applications of stimuli-responsive nano-carriers for
intracellular drug delivery, the design and development of advanced polymeric micelles …

Thermo-sensitive polymeric micelles based on poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) as drug carriers

H Wei, SX Cheng, XZ Zhang, RX Zhuo - Progress in Polymer Science, 2009 - Elsevier
Amphiphilic copolymers are well developed as precursors for the preparation of micellar
drug carriers. Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAAm) is one of the most extensively studied …

Living radical polymerization by the RAFT process—a first update

G Moad, E Rizzardo, SH Thang - Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2006 - CSIRO Publishing
This paper provides a first update to the review of living radical polymerization achieved with
thiocarbonylthio compounds (ZC (= S) SR) by a mechanism of Reversible Addition …

Drug delivery systems: Advanced technologies potentially applicable in personalized treatments

JF Coelho, PC Ferreira, P Alves, R Cordeiro… - EPMA journal, 2010 - Springer
Advanced drug delivery systems (DDS) present indubitable benefits for drug administration.
Over the past three decades, new approaches have been suggested for the development of …

Reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) radical polymerization and the synthesis of water-soluble (co) polymers under homogeneous conditions in …

AB Lowe, CL McCormick - Progress in Polymer Science, 2007 - Elsevier
Reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) radical polymerization has, since
its discovery by CSIRO, evolved into an extremely powerful synthetic tool for polymer …

Stimuli-responsive amphiphilic (co) polymers via RAFT polymerization

AE Smith, X Xu, CL McCormick - Progress in polymer science, 2010 - Elsevier
Over the last decade reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization
has become a powerful technique for the preparation of well-defined copolymer …