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PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 120, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2021.101429
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21902117]
- French Agency for National Research (ANR) [ANR-15-CE09-0021]
- CSC
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-15-CE09-0021] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Polymeric nanomaterials, especially sugar-based nanocapsules, have shown great potential in bio-applications for constructing water- and oil-filled nanocapsules. This review focuses on the physical and chemical techniques used to build sugarbased nanocapsules, and summarizes their properties and bio-applications. Open challenges and opportunities for the future development of glyconanocapsules (GNCs) are also discussed.
Polymeric nanomaterials are deemed to unlock the potential of therapeutics and improve their efficiency, to allow future advances in nanomedicine. Among these, sugar-based nanocapsules made of synthetic or natural carbohydrate-based macromolecular chains have raised significant interest in bio-applications. This review highlights physical or/and chemical techniques to construct both water- and oil-filled sugarbased nanocapsules. These include soft matter processes, such as (double) emulsification, coacervation or layer-by layer fabrication as well as more recently developed processes such as Polymerization Induced Self Assembly (PISA) or template core removal. Properties and bio-applications of glyconanocapsules (GNCs) are summarized and open challenges as well as opportunities for the future development of this field are being discussed. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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