Annually, millions of patients suffer from irreversible injury owing to the loss or failure of an
organ or tissue caused by accident, aging, or disease. The combination of injectable …

A prominent research topic in contemporary advanced functional materials science is the
production of smart materials based on polymers that may independently adjust their …

Some of thermo-responsive polysaccharides, namely, cellulose, xyloglucan, and chitosan,
and protein-like gelatin or elastin-like polypeptides can exhibit temperature dependent sol …

In this work a dual crosslinked network based on sodium alginate graft copolymer, bearing
poly (N-isopropylacrylamide-co-N-tert-butylacrylamide) P (NIPAM-co-NtBAM) side chains …

Self-healing hydrogels have the ability to recover their original properties after the action of
an external stress, due to presence in their structure of reversible chemical or physical cross …

The enervating side effects of chemotherapeutic drugs have necessitated the use of targeted
drug delivery in cancer therapy. To that end, thermoresponsive hydrogels have been …

Abstract Development of wound dressings with antimicrobial activity and promotion of
sustained wound healing to reduce the use of antibiotics in infected wounds is important. In …

Thermoassociating copolymers were prepared by grafting temperature responsive poly (N-
isopropylacrylamide-stat-N-tert-butylacrylamide) telomers onto hyaluronan. By varying the …

In this work, a sodium alginate-based copolymer grafted by thermoresponsive poly (N-
isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM) chains was used as gelator (Alg-g-PNIPAM) in combination …

Polysaccharide-based graft copolymers bearing thermo-responsive grafting chains,
exhibiting LCST, have been designed to afford thermo-responsive injectable hydrogels. The …