Development of a novel thermo-responsive hydrogel-coated gold nanorods as a drug delivery system

Temperature-responsive and biocompatible nanocarriers based on clay nanotubes for controlled anti-cancer drug release

“…Differently from pristine HNTs, which mainly decompose at about 475 °C due to dihydroxylation of the Al-OH groups, 21 HNIP samples exhibit a multistep weight loss in the range of 200–450 °C due to PNIPAM backbone degradation. 40,41 The residual weight percentage after heating to 700 °C decreased from 71.2 wt% for HNIP LM and to 65.4 wt% for HNIP HM. By subtracting these values from the residual weight percentage of the samples before grafting (79.0 wt%), 29 the grafting content of the PNIPAM brushes attached to the nanotubes can be estimated as 7.8 wt% for HNIP LM and 13.6 wt% for HNIP HM.…”

A CMC-g-poly(AA-co-AMPS)/Fe3O4 hydrogel nanocomposite as a novel biopolymer-based catalyst in the synthesis of 1,4-dihydropyridines

“…4 Hydrogel-based hybrid materials are generally easy to design and manufacture. 5,6 Supramolecular hydrogels could be used as matrices for placing nanoparticles in nanocomposite gel hybrid materials. [7][8][9] Metal, non-metal or polymer nanoparticles (NPs) are widely used in the hydrogel matrix to formulate nanocomposites.…”