Stimuli-responsive drug release from smart polymers
Abstract
Over the past 10 years, stimuli-responsive polymeric biomaterials have emerged as effective systems for the delivery of therapeutics. Persistent with ongoing efforts to minimize adverse effects, stimuli-responsive biomaterials are designed to release in response to either chemical, physical, or biological triggers. The stimuli-responsiveness of smart biomaterials may improve spatiotemporal specificity of release. The material design may be used to tailor smart polymers to release a drug when particular stimuli are present. Smart biomaterials may use internal or external stimuli as triggering mechanisms. Internal stimuli-responsive smart biomaterials include those that respond to specific enzymes or changes in microenvironment pH; external stimuli can consist of electromagnetic, light, or acoustic energy; with some smart biomaterials responding to multiple stimuli. This review looks at current and evolving stimuli-responsive polymeric biomaterials in their proposed applications.
Publication Title
Journal of Functional Biomaterials
Recommended Citation
Wells, C., Harris, M., Choi, L., Murali, V., Guerra, F., & Jennings, J. (2019). Stimuli-responsive drug release from smart polymers. Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 10 (3) https://doi.org/10.3390/jfb10030034
