Speed, resolution and sensitivity of today's fluorescence bioimaging can be drastically
improved by fluorescent nanoparticles (NPs) that are many‐fold brighter than organic dyes …

Due to their unique magnetic properties, excellent biocompatibility as well as multi-purpose
biomedical potential (eg, applications in cancer therapy and general drug delivery) …

The association properties of poly (ethylene oxide)-block-poly (propyleneoxide)-block-poly
(ethylene oxide)(PEO PPO PEO) copolymers (commercially available as Poloxamers …

Theaggregation and phase behavior in water of several triblock copolymers of poly
(oxyethylene)-poly (oxypropylene)-poly (oxyethylene)[(EO) x (PO) y (EO) x] has been …

Pluronic® block copolymers are found to be an efficient drug delivery system with multiple
effects. The incorporation of drugs into the core of the micelles formed by Pluronic® results …

Stimuli-sensitive injectable polymeric hydrogels have been extensively investigated during
the past decade as bioactive agent delivery vehicles and for tissue engineering applications …

Stimuli-sensitive block copolymer hydrogels, which are reversible polymer networks formed
by physical interactions and exhibit a sol–gel phase-transition in response to external …

It is the belief of the editors of this book that the recognition of block copolymers as being
amphiphilic molecules and sharing common features with other well-studied amphiphiles …

The precise control of the formation of stimuli-sensitive sequences (block or graft) as part of
copolymer architectures is fascinating because of the remarkable phase behavior of their …

The aim of the present work was to obtain an ophthalmic delivery system with improved
mechanical and mucoadhesive properties that could provide prolonged retention time for …