Journal
ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202000953
Keywords
biosensing; diagnosis; drug delivery; nanomaterials; nanotheranostics; polymer brushes
Funding
- Maplethorpe Foundation
- University of London [RE14728]
- European Research Council (ProLiCell) [772462]
- Leverhulme Trust Foundation [RPG-2017-229, 69241]
- European Research Council (ERC) [772462] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Responsive polymer brushes are capable of conformational and chemical changes in response to external stimuli, offering unique opportunities for the control of bio-nano interactions. They can be designed on a wide range of nanomaterial surfaces without compromising their physical and imaging properties. Research on the use of responsive brushes as smart delivery systems is still in its early stages.
Responsive polymer brushes are a category of polymer brushes that are capable of conformational and chemical changes in response to external stimuli. They offer unique opportunities for the control of bio-nano interactions due to the precise control of chemical and structural parameters such as the brush thickness, density, chemistry, and architecture. The design of responsive brushes at the surface of nanomaterials for theranostic applications has developed rapidly. These coatings can be generated from a very broad range of nanomaterials, without compromising their physical, photophysical, and imaging properties. Although the use of responsive brushes for nanotheranostic remains in its early stages, in this review, the aim is to present how the systems developed to date can be combined to control sensing, imaging, and controlled delivery of therapeutics. The recent developments for such design and associated methods for the synthesis of responsive brushes are discussed. The responsive behaviors of homo polymer brushes and brushes with more complex architectures are briefly reviewed, before the applications of responsive brushes as smart delivery systems are discussed. Finally, the recent work is summarized on the use of responsive polymer brushes as novel biosensors and diagnostic tools for the detection of analytes and biomarkers.
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