Hydrogels as drug delivery systems: A review of current characterization and evaluation techniques

M Vigata, C Meinert, DW Hutmacher, N Bock - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Owing to their tunable properties, controllable degradation, and ability to protect labile
drugs, hydrogels are increasingly investigated as local drug delivery systems. However, a …

Graphene and its derivatives: understanding the main chemical and medicinal chemistry roles for biomedical applications

TM Magne, T de Oliveira Vieira, LMR Alencar… - Journal of nanostructure …, 2022 - Springer
Over the past few years, there has been a growing potential use of graphene and its
derivatives in several biomedical areas, such as drug delivery systems, biosensors, and …

Overcoming blood–brain barrier transport: Advances in nanoparticle-based drug delivery strategies

S Ding, AI Khan, X Cai, Y Song, Z Lyu, D Du, P Dutta… - Materials today, 2020 - Elsevier
The blood–brain barrier (BBB), a unique structure in the central nervous system (CNS),
protects the brain from bloodborne pathogens by its excellent barrier properties …

Aptamer functionalized nanomaterials for biomedical applications: Recent advances and new horizons

M Mahmoudpour, S Ding, Z Lyu, G Ebrahimi, D Du… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
With the advancement of functional nanomaterials and aptamer selection technologies,
aptamer functionalized nanomaterials (AFMs) open various methods to design new sensing …

Synthesis of graphene quantum dots and their applications in drug delivery

C Zhao, X Song, Y Liu, Y Fu, L Ye, N Wang… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
This review focuses on the recent advances in the synthesis of graphene quantum dots
(GQDs) and their applications in drug delivery. To give a brief understanding about the …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis, properties, applications, 3D printing and machine learning of graphene quantum dots in polymer nanocomposites

V Dananjaya, S Marimuthu, R Yang, AN Grace… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
This comprehensive review discusses the recent progress in synthesis, properties,
applications, 3D printing and machine learning of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) in …

Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs): emerging biomaterials for cancer theragnostic applications

MS Kang, E Cho, HE Choi, C Amri, JH Lee… - Biomaterials …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Cancer is a disease caused by abnormal cell growth that spreads through other parts of the
body and threatens life by destroying healthy tissues. Therefore, numerous techniques have …

Integrating ionic liquids with molecular imprinting technology for biorecognition and biosensing: A review

S Ding, Z Lyu, X Niu, Y Zhou, D Liu, M Falahati… - Biosensors and …, 2020 - Elsevier
As promising alternatives to natural receptors, artificial molecularly imprinted polymers
(MIPs) have received great attention in biotechnology. Nevertheless, some bottlenecks limit …

Dual responsive molecularly imprinted polymers based on UiO-66-DOX for selective targeting tumor cells and controlled drug release

S Han, Y Song, S Liu, L Zhao, R Sun - European polymer journal, 2022 - Elsevier
The preparation of synthetic drug delivery systems free of antibody modifications that can
effectively recognize tumor sites and control drug delivery is essential for cancer therapy. In …

Nano-molecularly imprinted polymers (nanoMIPs) as a novel approach to targeted drug delivery in nanomedicine

KG Shevchenko, IS Garkushina, F Canfarotta… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecularly imprinted polymers–MIPs–denote synthetic polymeric structures that selectively
recognize the molecule of interest against which MIPs are templated. A number of works …