Journal
NANO TODAY
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 52-65Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nantod.2008.10.011
Keywords
Nanoparticles; Biomedical; Thermal response; Magnetic response; Drug delivery
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- National Science Council of the Republic of China, Taiwan [NSC96-2627-B-009-006, NSC96-2113-M009-027-MY2]
- US National Science Foundation [DMR-05-20020]
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Several biocompatible polymers are capable of large responses to small temperature changes around 37 degrees C In water, their responses include shrinkage and swelling as well as transitions in wettability. These properties have been harnessed for biomedical applications such as tissue engineering scaffolds and drug delivery carriers. A soft material/hard material hybrid in which a magnetic: metal or oxide is embedded in a temperature-responsive polymer matrix can combine the thermal sensitivity with magnetic signatures. Importantly, nanosizing such construct brings about new desirable features of extremely fast thermal response time, small magnetic hysteresis and enhanced magnetic susceptibility. Remote magnetic maneuvering and heating of the hybrid nanocolloids makes possible such applications as high-throughput enzyme separation and cell screening. Robust drug release on demand may also be obtained using these colloids and nanoparticle-derived thin film devices of combined thermal magnetic sensitivity. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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