Engineered polymers have been utilized for developing advanced drug delivery systems. The development of such polymers has caused advances in polymer chemistry, which, in turn, has resulted in smart polymers that can respond to changes in environmental condition such as temperature, pH, and biomolecules. The responses vary widely from swelling/deswelling to degradation. Drug-polymer conjugates ...

Polymeric micelles, self-assembling nano-constructs of amphiphilic copolymers with a core-shell structure have been used as versatile carriers for delivery of drugs as well as nucleic acids. They have gained immense popularity owing to a host of favorable properties including their capacity to effectively solubilize a variety of poorly soluble pharmaceutical agents, biocompatibility, longevity,...

Additive micro/nano-manufacturing of polymeric precursors combining with a subsequent pyrolysis step enables the design-controlled fabrication micro/nano-architected 3D pyrolytic carbon structures complex architectural details. Pyrolysis results in significant geometrical shrinkage structure, leading to structural dimension significantly smaller than resolution limit involved additive manufactu...

Abstract: In this paper, we present the synthesis of Fe3O4 nano particles of hybrid for coating on metal or glass surfaces.The synthesis of the organic/inorganic nanocomposite is described. This nanocomposite is a water – dispersible polymeric complex of polymethacrylic acid and polyaniline.The water dispersible hybride material was coated on aluminum using a molecular layer – by – layer coatin...

Inspired by the multifunctionality of vitamin D-binding protein and the multiple transient-binding behavior of some intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), a polymeric platform is designed, prepared, and characterized for combined delivery of dermal protective and anticancer bioactive cargos on the basis of artificial single-chain nano-objects mimicking IDPs. For the first time ever, simultan...

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