Smart polymers for biomedical application and environmental protection

Biomolecule-Functionalized Smart Polydiacetylene for Biomedical and Environmental Sensing.

Polydiacetylene (PDA) has attracted interest for use as a sensing platform in biomedical, environmental, and chemical engineering applications owing to its capacity for colorimetric and fluorescent transition in response to external stimuli. Many researchers have attempted to develop a tailor-made PDA sensor via conjugation of chemical or biological substances to PDA. Here, we review smart bio-...

Self-assembled Smart Nanocoating and Colloidal Materials for Biomedical Application

Creation of novel and smart materials is one of the driving forces for the evolution of coating and encapsulation technologies. A challenge of materials engineering is the controlled assembly of purposefully designed molecules, or ensembles of molecules, into nanoand micrometer-scale structures to provide increasingly precise control at molecular levels, over the structure, properties and funct...

Polymers for Biomedical Engineering

Photocrosslinkable Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Photopolymerization techniques provide a number of economic advantages over the usual thermal techniques. These include: rapid cure reaction, low energy requirements, use of room temperature and solvent free formulations as well as low cost. Light beams are used to start the photochemical reactions in organic materials (monomers, oligomers, polymers) to form a new polymeric system This techniqu...

Thermoresponsive Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Thermoresponsive polymers are a class of “smart” materials that have the ability to respond to a change in temperature; a property that makes them useful materials in a wide range of applications and consequently attracts much scientific interest. This review focuses mainly on the studies published over the last 10 years on the synthesis and use of thermoresponsive polymers for biomedical appli...