Smart polymeric materials respond with a considerable change in their properties to small changes in their environment. Environmental stimuli include temperature, pH, chemicals, and light. "Smart" stimuli-sensitive materials can be either synthetic or natural. This review discusses the application of smart materials as tools to solve biological problems such as bioseparation, drug delivery, bio...

In this review a strategy for the design of bioinspired, smart, multiscale interfacial (BSMI) materials is presented and put into context with recent progress in the field of BSMI materials spanning natural to artificial to reversibly stimuli-sensitive interfaces. BSMI materials that respond to single/dual/multiple external stimuli, e.g., light, pH, electrical fields, and so on, can switch reve...

There are a large number of materials, both organic and inorganic, which are sensitive to light (see, for example, Ref. 1). However, over the years one specific class of photosensitive materials has been dominate in the application of integrated circuit manufacturing -the diazonaphthoquinone/novolak system found in conventional g-line and i-line positive photoresists. Rather than present a comp...

A new differential refractometer, which mainly consists of a laser light source, a position-sensitive detector, and a temperature-controlled refractometer cuvette has recently been developed. In comparison with a conventional differential refractometer, it has a different optical design so that the effect of laser beam drift can be greatly reduced. In our design, a very small pinhole is illumin...

This chart is an update to the 2014 article published in Hospital Pharmacy on injectable drugs that require protection from light. To chart, online search of FDALabel database was performed inception through July 31, 2022 using terms “protect” OR “light.” After filtering out with non-injectable routes administration, list generic drug names combined and duplicates were removed. The resulting th...