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Recent Advances in Thermoresponsive OEGylated Poly(amino acid)s

Geng C., Wang S., Wang H.

Narrative Review, published in Polymers (Basel) (2021) — summary generated from the PubMed abstract.

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Study type
Narrative Review
Journal
Polymers (Basel) (2021)
Reported sample size
—
Source database
Europe PMC
PMID
34072769
PMCID
PMC8198699
DOI
10.3390/polym13111813
Citations
5

Abstract (original English)

Thermoresponsive polymers have been widely studied in the past decades due to their potential applications in biomedicine, nanotechnology, and so on. As is known, poly( N -isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) and poly(oligo(ethylene glycol)methacrylates) (POEGMAs) are the most popular thermoresponsive polymers, and have been studied extensively. However, more advanced thermoresponsive polymers with excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability, and bioactivity also need to be developed for biomedical applications. OEGylated poly(amino acid)s are a kind of novel polymer which are synthesized by attaching one or multiple oligo(ethylene glycol) (OEG) chains to poly(amino acid) (PAA).These polymers combine the great solubility of OEG, and the excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability and well defined secondary structures of PAA. These advantages allow them to have great application prospects in the field of biomedicine. Therefore, the study of OEGylated poly(amino acid)s has attracted more attention recently. In this review, we summarized the development of thermoresponsive OEGylated poly(amino acid)s in recent years, including the synthesis method (such as ring-opening polymerization, post-polymerization modification, and Ugi reaction), stimuli-response behavior study, and secondary structure study. We hope that this periodical summary will be more conducive to design, synthesis and ap

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