Pharmapolymers in the 21st century: Synthetic polymers in drug delivery applications

C Englert, JC Brendel, TC Majdanski, T Yildirim… - Progress in Polymer …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The administration of drugs, as a main challenge of pharmaceutical and medicinal
applications, has certainly benefited from the application of synthetic polymers. However …

Beyond nylon 6: Polyamides via ring opening polymerization of designer lactam monomers for biomedical applications

M Varghese, MW Grinstaff - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Ring opening polymerization (ROP) of lactams is a highly efficient and versatile method to
synthesize polyamides. Within the last ten years, significant advances in polymerization …

Recent trends in catalytic polymerizations

DJ Walsh, MG Hyatt, SA Miller, D Guironnet - ACS Catalysis, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Polymers have become one of the largest and most important materials we use in daily life.
Their popularity has stemmed from their wide range of material properties combined with …

Synthesis of Well-Defined Polypeptide-Based Materials via the Ring-Opening Polymerization of α-Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides

N Hadjichristidis, H Iatrou, M Pitsikalis… - Chemical …, 2009‏ - ACS Publications
Synthesis of Well-Defined Polypeptide-Based Materials via the Ring-Opening
Polymerization of α-Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS …

Stimuli responsive synthetic polypeptides derived from N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) polymerisation

J Huang, A Heise - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The progress in NCA polymerisation combined with advanced orthogonal functionalization
techniques as well as the integration with other controlled polymerisation techniques …

Stimuli-responsive polypeptide vesicles by conformation-specific assembly

EG Bellomo, MD Wyrsta, L Pakstis, DJ Pochan… - Nature materials, 2004‏ - nature.com
In biology, lipids are well known for their ability to assemble into spherical vesicles. Proteins,
in particular virus capsids, can also form regular vesicle-like structures, where the precise …

Synthetic polypeptides for biomedical applications

TJ Deming - Progress in Polymer Science, 2007‏ - Elsevier
This article summarizes recent developments in the synthesis of copolypeptides from
polymerization of α-amino acid-N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs), focusing on their …

Living ring-opening polymerizations of heterocyclic monomers

S Penczek, M Cypryk, A Duda, P Kubisa… - Progress in Polymer …, 2007‏ - Elsevier
As it follows from the “Contents”, mechanisms of living ring-opening polymerizations (LROP),
including anionic, coordination, cationic, activated monomer, and polymerization in …

Self-assembly of rod–coil block copolymers

BD Olsen, RA Segalman - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Rod–coil block copolymers are an increasingly important class of molecules for the self-
assembly of functional polymer systems, many of which have rodlike chain conformations …

Charged polypeptide vesicles with controllable diameter

EP Holowka, DJ Pochan… - Journal of the American …, 2005‏ - ACS Publications
We report the preparation and characterization of charged, amphiphilic block
copolypeptides that form stable vesicles and micelles in aqueous solution. Specifically, we …