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Recent developments in intelligent biomedical polymers

Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
Science in China Series B Chemistry (impact factor: 1.2). 01/2009; 52(2):117-130. DOI:10.1007/s11426-008-0151-z pp.117-130

ABSTRACT Intelligent polymers or stimuli-responsive polymers may exhibit distinct transitions in physical-chemical properties, including
conformation, polarity, phase structure and chemical composition in response to changes in environmental stimuli. Due to their
unique ‘intelligent’ characteristics, stimuli-sensitive polymers have found a wide variety of applications in biomedical and
nanotechnological fields. This review focuses on the recent developments in biomedical application of intelligent polymer
systems, such as intelligent hydrogel systems, intelligent drug delivery systems and intelligent molecular recognition systems.
Also, the possible future directions for the application of these intelligent polymer systems in the biomedical field are
presented.

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Keywords

applications
 
biomedical application
 
biomedical field
 
conformation
 
environmental stimuli
 
intelligent drug delivery systems
 
intelligent hydrogel systems
 
intelligent molecular recognition systems
 
intelligent polymer systems
 
Intelligent polymers
 
nanotechnological fields
 
possible future directions
 
recent developments
 
stimuli-responsive polymers
 
stimuli-sensitive polymers
 
unique ‘intelligent’ characteristics