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Stimuli Responsive Polymer Self-Assembly And Disassembly, Jiaming Zhuang

Doctoral Dissertations

Stimuli responsive polymer assemblies have been long investigated for drug application due to their flexibility for surface functionalization to achieve desired interfacial property and capability of acting as a host for payloads encapsulation. These interfacial and host-guest properties are very critical and need to be customized really depending on nature of cargos and specific delivery application. More importantly, these properties are always desired to be adaptable in different environments. For instance, adjustable interfacial property can facilitate the carrier to overcome a variety of different barriers before it reach the target while changeable host-guest property allows to selectively releasing the payload …