The natural amino acid l-tyrosine is a major nutrient having a phenolic hydroxyl group. This
feature makes it possible to use derivatives of tyrosine dipeptide as a motif to generate …

The second edition of An Introduction to Biomaterials consists of 33 chapters that have been
conceived and organized as a practical educational road map to provide a fundamental …

We describe the synthesis and characterization of a family of biocompatible ABA-triblock
copolymers that comprised of hydrophilic A-blocks of poly (ethylene glycol) and hydrophobic …

Abstract Poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG) is the gold standard polymer for biomedical
applications. PEG is known for its biocompatibility and antifouling properties and is widely …

Biomedical polymers that are designed to degrade faster at slightly acidic pH values may
potentially be developed for use in drug delivery, pharmaceutical formulation and …

The objective of this study was to get an insight into the influence of the newly provided
functional groups from the copolymerization as a strategy on the total interactions of the …

Long chain aliphatic alcohols have been used as model compounds to develop a
preparative method for a water-soluble material, which could be a carrier for triacontanol, a …

Poly (N-trityl serine lactone)(PTSL) and mPEG-block-poly (N-trityl serine lactone)(mPEG-b-
PTSL, PEG= polyethylene glycol) were synthesized via the ring-opening polymerization of N …

The two strategies of mixing and copolymerizing were used to incorporate more drug‐
compatible butylene adipate (BA) repeating units into the less drug‐compatible unsaturated …

This chapter describes polymeric biomaterials based on the natural amino acid L-tyrosine.
We will discuss the synthesis of tyrosine-derived monomers and polymers, the processing …