Stimuli Responsive Polymeric Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery Applications: Volume 2: Advanced Nanocarriers for Therapeutics

Nanocarrier systems based on stimuli-responsive polymers are receiving increasing interest because of their ability to undergo conformational changes or to show phase transitions in response to external stimuli.

Innovation and development in the area of stimuli responsive polymer-based nanomaterials for drug delivery is moving fast and there is an increased global demand for biodegradable and biocompatible responsive polymers and nanoparticles for safe drug delivery. This volume discusses in detail the recent trends in designing dual and multi-responsive polymers and nanoparticles for safe drug delivery.

Chapters in Part 1 look at a variety of dual-responsive polymeric nanocarriers for drug delivery and their different stimuli whilst part 2 examines multi-responsive polymeric nanocarriers. The final set of chapters analyses therapeutic applications of stimuli-responsive polymers.

With an emphasis on advanced medical applications and synergistic operational and technological methodologies for improvement of polymers systems for the production of stimuli-responsive polymers, this book is essential reading for materials scientists and researchers working in the drug delivery and pharmaceutical industries.

Focusses on the most advanced technologies, recent evaluation methods, technical aspects, and advanced synthesis techniques stimuli-responsive polymersExamines advanced medical applications of stimuli responsive polymersAnalyses synergistic operational and technological methodologies for improvement of polymers systems for the production of stimuli-responsive polymers for drug delivery

Part I - Dual-Stimuli Responsive Polymers 1. Redox and pH-responsive polymeric nanocarriers 2. Magnetic and pH-responsive polymeric nanocarriers 3. Temperature and pH dual-stimuli responsivepolymeric carriers for drug delivery 4. Dual-nanosystems with thermal and magnetic stimuli-responses: In vivo current advances

Part II - Multi-Stimuli Responsive Polymers 5. Multi-responsive polymeric carriers 6. Multi-stimuli-responsive magnetic assemblies

Part III - Stimuli Responsive Polymers for Theranostic Applications 7. Smart Internal and External Stimulus-Responsive Nanocarriers for Image-guided Therapy and Drug Delivery Applications 8. Stimuli-responsive polymers for image-guided therapeutic applications 9. Polymeric nanoblends as biomedical nanocarriers: current developments and preclinical investigations

Part IV - Stimuli Responsive Drug Delivery Systems 10. Ionic-strength responsive polymers for drug delivery applications 11. Dual and multi-stimuli responsive block copolymers for drug delivery applications  12. Stimuli-responsive polymeric micelles for intracellular and extracellular drug delivery 13. Stimuli-responsive polymer-modified liposomes and their application to DDS 14. Thermo-responsive polymers for drug delivery applications 15. Carbon nanotubes for drug delivery 16. Stimuli-Responsive polymersomes for Drug Delivery Applications

Part V - Stimuli Responsive Polymers for Cancer Therapy 17. Stimuli-responsive polymersomes for cancer therapy 18. Responsive Polymeric micelles for Drug Delivery Applications/ Cancer Therapy

Part VI - Stimuli Responsive Polymers for Therapeutic Applications 19. Stimuli-responsive polymers for oral drug delivery applications 20. Stimuli-responsive polymers for ocular therapy 21. Stimuli-responsive polymers for treatment of Diabetes Mellitus 22. Stimuli-responsive polymers for oral insulin delivery 23. Stimuli-responsive Polysaccharides for Colon Targeted Drug Delivery

Part VII - Future Trends and Challenges 24. Future trends, challenges and opportunities with responsive polymer-based drug delivery systems