title: Smart chemistry in polymeric nanomedicine.
abstract: This review provides an overview of smart chemistry developed and utilized in the last 5-10 years in polymer-based drug delivery nanomedicine. Smart chemistry not only facilitates the controlled drug loading in a highly specific manner, but also potentially controls the drug release kinetics at the targeted tissues. This review highlights the emergence of new chemistry or unique utilization of conventional chemistry in drug delivery, which is believed to play an important role in developing next generation nanomedicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. jianjunc@uiuc.edu.
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tong
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Chunlai
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baumgartner
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004337:Drug Carriers / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D050997:Nanomedicine / Q000379:methods*; D011108:Polymers / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D004337:Drug Carriers; D011108:Polymers