Star polymers

JM Ren, TG McKenzie, Q Fu, EHH Wong, J Xu… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in controlled/living polymerization techniques and highly efficient coupling
chemistries have enabled the facile synthesis of complex polymer architectures with …

Design, functionalization strategies and biomedical applications of targeted biodegradable/biocompatible polymer-based nanocarriers for drug delivery

J Nicolas, S Mura, D Brambilla, N Mackiewicz… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Design and functionalization strategies for multifunctional nanocarriers (eg, nanoparticles,
micelles, polymersomes) based on biodegradable/biocompatible polymers intended to be …

Applications of metal-organic frameworks as drug delivery systems

B Maranescu, A Visa - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last decade, metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have shown great prospective as new
drug delivery systems (DDSs) due to their unique properties: these materials exhibit …

Hyperbranched polymers: advances from synthesis to applications

Y Zheng, S Li, Z Weng, C Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Hyperbranched polymers (HPs) are highly branched three-dimensional (3D)
macromolecules. Their globular and dendritic architectures endow them with unique …

High drug-loading nanomedicines: progress, current status, and prospects

S Shen, Y Wu, Y Liu, D Wu - International journal of nanomedicine, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Drug molecules transformed into nanoparticles or endowed with nanostructures with or
without the aid of carrier materials are referred to as “nanomedicines” and can overcome …

High drug loading and sub-quantitative loading efficiency of polymeric micelles driven by donor–receptor coordination interactions

S Lv, Y Wu, K Cai, H He, Y Li, M Lan… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Polymeric micelles are extensively used for the delivery of hydrophobic drugs, which,
however, suffer from unsatisfactory drug loading, colloidal uniformity, formulation stability …

Overcoming the barriers in micellar drug delivery: loading efficiency, in vivo stability, and micelle–cell interaction

S Kim, Y Shi, JY Kim, K Park… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Importance of the field: Spontaneously constructed from block copolymers in aqueous
media, the polymer micelle has been extensively studied as a potential carrier of poorly …

Design of biocompatible dendrimers for cancer diagnosis and therapy: current status and future perspectives

Y Cheng, L Zhao, Y Li, T Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
In the past decade, nanomedicine with its promise of improved therapy and diagnostics has
revolutionized conventional health care and medical technology. Dendrimers and dendrimer …

Self‐assembly of hyperbranched polymers and its biomedical applications

Y Zhou, W Huang, J Liu, X Zhu, D Yan - Advanced materials, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Hyperbranched polymers (HBPs) are highly branched macromolecules with a three‐
dimensional dendritic architecture. Due to their unique topological structure and interesting …

PEG–PLGA copolymers: Their structure and structure-influenced drug delivery applications

K Zhang, X Tang, J Zhang, W Lu, X Lin, Y Zhang… - Journal of Controlled …, 2014 - Elsevier
In the paper, we begin by describing polyethylene glycol–poly lactic acid-co-glycolic acid
(PEG–PLGA) which was chosen as a typical model copolymer for the construction of nano …