Thermoresponsive Nanodevices in Biomedical Applications
- 16 October 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Macromolecular Bioscience
- Vol. 15 (2), 183-199
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mabi.201400362
Abstract
In the last couple of decades several drug carriers have been tailored on the nanometric scale by taking advantage of new stimuli responsive materials. Thermoresponsive polymers in particular have been extensively employed as stimuli-responsive building blocks that in combination with other environmental-responsive materials allowed the birth of smarter systems that can respond to more than one stimulus. Examples that highlight the different polymers for thermally triggered drug delivery will be described. A special emphasis will be given to the description of novel theranostic nanodevices that combine more than one responsive modality in order to create a local hyperthermia that leads to the polymer phase transition and triggered drug release, cell recognition, and/or appearance of an imaging signal.Funding Information
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- NanoMatFutur award (13N12561)
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