scholarly journals Stimuli-responsive nanobubbles for biomedical applications

Author(s):  
Ranhua Xiong ◽  
Ronald X. Xu ◽  
Chaobo Huang ◽  
Stefaan De Smedt ◽  
Kevin Braeckmans

This review presents an overview of the recent advances in the development of stimuli-responsive nanobubbles and their novel biomedical applications including bio-imaging, drug delivery and ablation of tumor tissues.

Author(s):  
Francesca Persano ◽  
Svetlana Batasheva ◽  
Gölnur Fakhrullina ◽  
Giuseppe Gigli ◽  
Stefano Leporatti ◽  
...  

Inorganic materials, in particular nanoclays and silica nanoparticles, have attracted enormous attention due to their versatile and tuneable properties, making them ideal candidates for a wide range of biomedical applications, such as drug delivery.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinesh K. Patel ◽  
Yu-Ri Seo ◽  
Ki-Taek Lim

Stimuli-responsive materials, also known as smart materials, can change their structure and, consequently, original behavior in response to external or internal stimuli. This is due to the change in the interactions between the various functional groups. Graphene, which is a single layer of carbon atoms with a hexagonal morphology and has excellent physiochemical properties with a high surface area, is frequently used in materials science for various applications. Numerous surface functionalizations are possible for the graphene structure with different functional groups, which can be used to alter the properties of native materials. Graphene-based hybrids exhibit significant improvements in their native properties. Since functionalized graphene contains several reactive groups, the behavior of such hybrid materials can be easily tuned by changing the external conditions, which is very useful in biomedical applications. Enhanced cell proliferation and differentiation of stem cells was reported on the surfaces of graphene-based hybrids with negligible cytotoxicity. In addition, pH or light-induced drug delivery with a controlled release rate was observed for such nanohybrids. Besides, notable improvements in antimicrobial activity were observed for nanohybrids, which demonstrated their potential for biomedical applications. This review describes the physiochemical properties of graphene and graphene-based hybrid materials for stimuli-responsive drug delivery, tissue engineering, and antimicrobial applications.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 666-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pahweenvaj Ratnatilaka Na Bhuket ◽  
Jittima Amie Luckanagul ◽  
Pornchai Rojsitthisak ◽  
Qian Wang

Chemistry enables scientists to use enveloped viruses in several biomedical applications including bio-imaging, drug delivery and vaccine development.


Polymers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 830 ◽  
Author(s):  
DaeYong Lee ◽  
N. Rejinold ◽  
Seong Jeong ◽  
Yeu-Chun Kim

Stimuli-responsive polypeptides have gained attention because desirable bioactive properties can be easily imparted to them while keeping their biocompatibility and biodegradability intact. In this review, we summarize the most recent advances in various stimuli-responsive polypeptides (pH, reduction, oxidation, glucose, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and enzyme) over the past five years. Various synthetic strategies exploited for advanced polypeptide-based materials are introduced, and their applicability in biomedical fields is discussed. The recent polypeptides imparted with new stimuli-responsiveness and their novel chemical and physical properties are explained in this review.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1089-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Fang ◽  
Fanling Meng ◽  
Liang Luo

This review summarized most recent advances of designing strategies of polydiacetylene-based smart biomaterials with unique colorimetric and mechanical properties, as well as their applications in biosensing, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Yang ◽  
Xinli Liu ◽  
Yunzhi Fu ◽  
Yujun Song

Author(s):  
Khyati D. Kshirsagar ◽  
Shubham M. Avhad ◽  
Pracheta A. Kuwar

Solid colloidal particles of size from 10 to 1000 Nanometre are known as Nanoparticles. Nanoparticles contribute many benefits to bigger particles such as enhanced surface-to-volume ratio and enhanced magnetic properties. Over the last few years, there has been an undeviating growing interest in using nanoparticles in different biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery, hyperthermia, photo ablation therapy, bio imaging, and biosensors. Iron oxide nanoparticles have dominated applications, such as drug delivery, hyperthermia, bio imaging, cell labelling, and gene delivery, because of their superior properties such as chemical stability, non-toxicity, biocompatibility, high saturation magnetization, and high magnetic susceptibility. In this paper, biomedical applications of two different types of nanoparticles metal oxide nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes are discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nemany Hanafy ◽  
Stefano Leporatti ◽  
Maged El-Kemary

Hydrogels are widely used materials which have many medical applications. Their ability to absorb aqueous solutions and biological fluids gives them innovative characterizations resulting in increased compatibility with biological activity. In this sense, they are used extensively for encapsulation of several targets such as biomolecules, viruses, bacteria, and mammalian cells. Indeed, many methods have been published which are used in hydrogel formulation and biomedical encapsulations involving several cross-linkers. This system is still rich with the potential of undiscovered features. The physicochemical properties of polymers, distinguished by their interactions with biological systems into mucoadhesive, gastro-adhesive, and stimuli responsive polymers. Hydrogel systems may be assembled as tablets, patches, gels, ointments, and films. Their potential to be co-formulated as nanoparticles extends the limits of their assembly and application. In this review, mucoadhesive nanoparticles and their importance for biomedical applications are highlighted with a focus on mechanisms of overcoming mucosal resistance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 5152-5165
Author(s):  
Adewale O. Oladipo ◽  
Thabo T. I. Nkambule ◽  
Bhekie B. Mamba ◽  
Titus A. M. Msagati

This minireview highlights recent advances in the synthesis and applications of metallic nanodendrites for bio-imaging, drug delivery, photothermal therapy, and radiotherapy.


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