Activated ester containing polymers: opportunities and challenges for the design of functional macromolecules

A Das, P Theato - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Rapidly growing demand of functional polymers in various interdisciplinary areas of
research has accentuated the need for modern synthetic tools to develop advanced …

Polymeric pH-sensitive membranes—A review

C Zhao, S Nie, M Tang, S Sun - Progress in Polymer Science, 2011 - Elsevier
Significant progress has been achieved in recent years in the field of pH-sensitive
membranes. In many cases, pH-sensitive membranes are systems for which the flux …

A review of multi-responsive membranous systems for rate-modulated drug delivery

RP Shaikh, V Pillay, YE Choonara, LC du Toit… - Aaps Pharmscitech, 2010 - Springer
Membrane technology is broadly applied in the medical field. The ability of membranous
systems to effectively control the movement of chemical entities is pivotal to their significant …

UCST responsive microgels of poly (acrylamide− acrylic acid) copolymers: Structure and viscoelastic properties

C Echeverria, D Lopez, C Mijangos - Macromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
Positive thermosensitive microgels were obtained via the inverse emulsion polymerization
method with controlled feeding system. Random acrylamide and acrylic acid copolymer …

Folate‐Decorated Succinylchitosan Nanoparticles Conjugated with Doxorubicin for Targeted Drug Delivery

SK Sahu, S Maiti, TK Maiti, SK Ghosh… - Macromolecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Amphiphilic biodegradable succinylchitosan nanoparticles modified with folic acid are
described that act as an emulsifier to form nanoparticles. Their molecular structures and …

Effects of additive dosage and coagulation bath pH on amphoteric fluorocarbon special surfactant (FS-50) blend PVDF membranes

H Liu, X Liao, Y Ren - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Amphiphilic copolymers containing hydrophilic and hydrophobic blocks represented by
surfactants have proven to be more effective for modifying membranes than hydrophilic …

Controlled delivery of drugs through smart pH-sensitive nanohydrogels for anti-cancer therapies: synthesis, drug release and cellular studies

A Álvarez-Bautista, CMM Duarte… - Designed Monomers …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Nanohydrogels were synthesized by microemulsion polymerization. These nanohydrogels
were pre-designed to be pH and temperature stimuli-response materials, using N …

Effect of gold nanoparticles on the thermosensitivity, morphology, and optical properties of poly (acrylamide–acrylic acid) microgels

C Echeverria, C Mijangos - Macromolecular rapid …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Novel positive thermosensitive microgels of poly (acrylamide–acrylic acid) with embedded
gold nanoparticles have been synthesized and characterized by means of dynamic light …

Surface functionalization of Ag-nanoclusters–silica composite films for biosensing

S Ferraris, S Perero, E Vernè, E Battistella… - Materials chemistry and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Ag nanocluster–silica composite films have been obtained by Radio-Frequency (RF) co-
sputtering on soda-lime substrates: their characteristic Localized Surface Plasmon …

Visible light-induced surfactant-free emulsion polymerization using camphorquinone/tertiary amine as the initiating system for the synthesis of amine-functionalized …

M Ratanajanchai, D Tanwilai, P Sunintaboon - Journal of colloid and …, 2013 - Elsevier
A visible light-induced surfactant-free emulsion polymerization (SFEP) was developed as an
alternative pathway for the preparation of amine-functionalized nanoparticles by using the …