Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (Controlled/living radical polymerization): From discovery to materials design and applications

N Corrigan, K Jung, G Moad, CJ Hawker… - Progress in Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) processes, such as atom transfer
radical polymerization (ATRP), reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) …

Design of polymeric nanoparticles for biomedical delivery applications

M Elsabahy, KL Wooley - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymeric nanoparticles-based therapeutics show great promise in the treatment of a wide
range of diseases, due to the flexibility in which their structures can be modified, with …

Multifunctional nanoparticles: cost versus benefit of adding targeting and imaging capabilities

Z Cheng, A Al Zaki, JZ Hui, VR Muzykantov, A Tsourkas - Science, 2012 - science.org
Nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems have been developed to improve the efficacy and
reduce the systemic toxicity of a wide range of drugs. Although clinically approved …

Why nanoparticles prefer liver macrophage cell uptake in vivo

W Ngo, S Ahmed, C Blackadar, B Bussin, Q Ji… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Effective delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic nanoparticles is dependent on their ability to
accumulate in diseased tissues. However, most nanoparticles end up in liver macrophages …

Nanogels: Synthesis, properties, and recent biomedical applications

QY Duan, YX Zhu, HR Jia, SH Wang, FG Wu - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanogels, also termed hydrogel nanoparticles, have the properties and functions of both
nanomaterials and hydrogels. Till date, a considerable number of nanogels have been …

“Click” reactions: a versatile toolbox for the synthesis of peptide-conjugates

W Tang, ML Becker - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptides that comprise the functional subunits of proteins have been conjugated to versatile
materials (biomolecules, polymers, surfaces and nanoparticles) in an effort to modulate cell …

Synthesis and functionalization of hyperbranched polymers for targeted drug delivery

A Kavand, N Anton, T Vandamme, CA Serra… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hyperbranched polymers (HBPs) have found use in a wide range of applications, such as
optical, electronic and magnetic materials, coatings, additives, supramolecular chemistry …

Challenges in design and characterization of ligand-targeted drug delivery systems

S Muro - Journal of Controlled Release, 2012 - Elsevier
Targeting of therapeutic agents to molecular markers expressed on the surface of cells
requiring clinical intervention holds promise to improve specificity of delivery, enhancing …

Design of materials with supramolecular polymers

TD Clemons, SI Stupp - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
One hundred years ago Hermann Staudinger was strongly criticized by his scientific peers
for his macromolecular hypothesis, but today it is hard to imagine a world without polymers …

Stimuli‐responsive polymeric nanoparticles for nanomedicine

CIC Crucho - ChemMedChem, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Nature continues to be the ultimate in nanotechnology, where polymeric nanometer‐scale
architectures play a central role in biological systems. Inspired by the way nature forms …