Coaxial nanotubes of stimuli responsive polymers with tunable release kinetics

Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (41) ◽  
pp. 8069-8075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efe Armagan ◽  
Gozde Ozaydin Ince

Coaxial nanotubes with different stimuli responsive polymer layers demonstrate triggered response with release rates that can be controlled by tuning the polymer chemistry.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
pp. 7042-7061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Shu ◽  
Liang Hu ◽  
Qiming Shen ◽  
Li Jiang ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
...  

The unique properties of stimuli-responsive polymers make them valuable for myriad applications, their use for biosensing and molecular diagnostics is reviewed here.


2020 ◽  
pp. 65-123
Author(s):  
Mehmet Can Zeybek ◽  
Egemen Acar ◽  
Gozde Ozaydin-Ince

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menglian Wei ◽  
Yongfeng Gao ◽  
Xue Li ◽  
Michael J. Serpe

Responsive polymer-based materials are capable of altering their chemical and/or physical properties upon exposure to external stimuli. This review highlights their use for sensing and biosensing, drug delivery, and artificial muscles/actuators.


Author(s):  
Brigitte Voit ◽  
Dirk Schmaljohann ◽  
Stefan Gramm ◽  
Mirko Nitschke ◽  
Carsten Werner

Pharmaceutics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 2050
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Berillo ◽  
Zharylkasyn Zharkinbekov ◽  
Yevgeniy Kim ◽  
Kamila Raziyeva ◽  
Kamila Temirkhanova ◽  
...  

Despite their conventional and widespread use, oral and intravenous routes of drug administration face several limitations. In particular, orally administered drugs undergo enzymatic degradation in the gastrointestinal tract and first-pass metabolism in the liver, which tend to decrease their bioavailability. Intravenous infusions of medications are invasive, painful and stressful for patients and carry the risk of infections, tissue damage and other adverse reactions. In order to account for these disadvantages, alternative routes of drug delivery, such as transdermal, nasal, oromucosal, ocular and others, have been considered. Moreover, drug formulations have been modified in order to improve their storage stability, solubility, absorption and safety. Recently, stimuli-responsive polymers have been shown to achieve controlled release and enhance the bioavailability of multiple drugs. In this review, we discuss the most up-to-date use of stimuli-responsive materials in order to optimize the delivery of medications that are unstable to pH or undergo primary metabolism via transdermal, nasal, oromucosal and ocular routes. Release kinetics, diffusion parameters and permeation rate of the drug via the mucosa or skin are discussed as well.


2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 1453-1457 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Ionov ◽  
S. Sapra ◽  
A. Synytska ◽  
A. L. Rogach ◽  
M. Stamm ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Y. Ahroni ◽  
N. Dresler ◽  
A. Ulanov ◽  
D. Ashkenazi ◽  
M. Aviv ◽  
...  

In the past few years four-dimensional (4D) printing technologies have attained worldwide interest and they are now considered the "next big thing". The aim of this research is to provide three selected examples of stimuli-responsive polymer (SRP) applications additively manufactured (AM) by the fused filament fabrication (FFF) technique. To that end, a CCT BLUE filament of thermo-responsive polymer was chosen to produce a water temperature indicator, which changes colour from blue to white when temperature increases; a CCU RED filament of photo-responsive polymer was used to produce a sunlight / UV indicator bracelet; a transparent PLA CLEAR polymer, a CCU RED photo-responsive polymer, and an electrical conductive PLA polymer were selected to produce a smart business card stand. The temperature indicator capability was analysed based on examining colour changes as a function of temperature changes. The sunlight/UV indicator capability was analysed based on the inspection of colour change as a function of absorbed sun/ultraviolet light. The electrical conductivity of the conductive PLA polymer was examined by performing resistance measurements. All three objects were successfully produced and their functionality was demonstrated. We hope that these examples will catalyse the expansion of FFF 4D printed SRP applications, as much work remains to be done in designing the parts and developing FFF printing parameters that take advantage of the stimuli-responsive materials currently being developed for FFF technology.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 3940-3950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Verkoyen ◽  
Holger Frey

Amino-functional polyethers have emerged as a new class of “smart”, i.e. pH- and thermoresponsive materials. This review article summarizes the synthesis and applications of these materials, obtained from ring-opening of suitable epoxide monomers.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1369-1380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangyan Qing ◽  
Minmin Li ◽  
Lijing Deng ◽  
Ziyu Lv ◽  
Peng Ding ◽  
...  

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 329
Author(s):  
Seidai Okada ◽  
Eriko Sato

Coumarin-containing vinyl homopolymers, such as poly(7-methacryloyloxycoumarin) (P1a) and poly(7-(2′-methacryloyloxyethoxy)coumarin) (P1b), show a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) in chloroform, which can be controlled by the [2 + 2] photochemical cycloaddition of the coumarin moiety, and they are recognized as monofunctional dual-stimuli-responsive polymers. A single functional group of monofunctional dual-stimuli-responsive polymers responds to dual stimuli and can be introduced more uniformly and densely than those of dual-functional dual-stimuli-responsive polymers. In this study, considering a wide range of applications, organogels consisting of P1a and P1b, i.e., P1a-gel and P1b-gel, respectively, were synthesized, and their thermo- and photoresponsive behaviors in chloroform were investigated in detail. P1a-gel and P1b-gel in a swollen state (transparent) exhibited phase separation (turbid) through a temperature jump and reached a shrunken state (transparent), i.e., an equilibrium state, over time. Moreover, the equilibrium degree of swelling decreased non-linearly with increasing temperature. Furthermore, different thermoresponsive sites were photopatterned on the organogel through the photodimerization of the coumarin unit. The organogels consisting of homopolymers of coumarin-containing methacrylate exhibited unique thermo- and photoresponsivities and behaved as monofunctional dual-stimuli-responsive organogels.


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