Polymer Nanogels for Controlled Drug Delivery
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2021) | Viewed by 3544
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomaterials engineering; biomimetic & biohybrid materials engineering; polymer engineering; pharmaceutical engineering; therapeutic delivery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nanogels are robust swollen cross-linked polymer nanoparticles that can be used as highly efficient and biodegradable carriers for the transport of drugs in controlled drug delivery. The nanosized nature of the carriers endows them with a specific surface area and inner space, increasing the stability of loaded drugs and prolonging their circulation time. Nanogel-based nanoplatforms have become a tremendously promising system of drug delivery.
In this Special Issue, we discuss the description of the design, synthesis and drug delivery application properties of polymer nanogels. We focus on preparation and application of diverse responsiveness (temperature-sensitive, pH-sensitive and redox-sensitive) nanogels, which enable the stimuli-responsive release of drugs in the microenvironments of various diseases. And the synthesized nanosystems for tumor targeting modified by specific ligands.
Prof. Dr. Mark Edward Byrne
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanogels
- polymer nanogels
- multifunctional nanogels
- drug delivery
- drug release
- stimuli-responsive
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