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Silicon surfaces coated with polydopamine and poly (2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) for medical device applications
In order to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections caused by biofilm, in this study, polydopamine (PDA) was polymerized in the presence of ammonia on the surface of the silicone samples selected ...
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Synthesis, Characterization and Molecular Docking Study of Novel 1,4-Dihydropyridine Derivatives as Antimicrobial and Anticancer Agents
In the present study, a new series of 1,4-dihydropyridine-2-mercapto-quinazolinone hybrids (VIIa–VIIf) were synthesized by using the nucleophilic substitution reaction of 2-mercapto-3-aryl-4(3H)-quinazolinone (VI...
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Retraction Note to: Polyanizidine and Polycaprolactone Nanofibers for Designing the Conductive Scaffolds
The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding image overlap with an article that was under consideration in a different journal at the same time [1], as well...
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Retraction Note to: Engineered organic halide perovskite solar cells by incorporation of surface-manipulated graphenic nanosheets
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Retraction Note to: Electrode buffer layers via networks of polythiophene/polyaniline bottlebrushes and carbon nanotubes in organic solar cells
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A novel stimuli-responsive magnetic hydrogel based on nature-inspired tragacanth gum for chemo/hyperthermia treatment of cancerous cells
An efficient and facile strategy for the fabrication of a bioinspired drug delivery system (DDS) was designed and developed successfully based on tragacanth gum (TG) owing to its wide range of biological and p...
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Electroactive nanofibrous scaffold based on polythiophene for bone tissue engineering application
Electrically conductive polymeric biomaterials are promising candidates for bone tissue engineering (TE) due to pivotal role of electrical stimulation (ES) in regulating of some biological functions, including...
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A Novel pH-Responsive Magnetic Nanosystem for Delivery of Anticancer Drugs
A novel pH-responsive magnetic nanosystem was designed and developed for cancer therapy. For this purpose, a well-defined terpolymer was synthesized through the polymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (H...
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Synthesis of a new biodegradable system based on β-cyclodextrin/iron oxide nanocomposite: application for delivery of docetaxel
Magnetic nanocomposites are promising drug delivery systems for release and encapsulation of drugs because of the mild procedure of their fabrication from biopolymers, excellent chemical stability, their admis...
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Multi-stimuli-responsive magnetic hydrogel based on Tragacanth gum as a de novo nanosystem for targeted chemo/hyperthermia treatment of cancer
A novel magnetic pH- and redox-responsive drug delivery system (DDS) based on natural Tragacanth gum (TG) was developed for targeted chemo/hyperthermia treatment of cancer. Firstly, acrylic acid (AA) monomer w...
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Electrically Conductive Nanofibers Composed of Chitosan-grafted Polythiophene and Poly(ε-caprolactone) as Tissue Engineering Scaffold
Two novel electrically conductive nanofibrous scaffolds based on chitosan-grafted polythiophene (CS-g-PTh), and chitosan-grafted polythiophene/poly(ε-caprolactone) (CS-g-PTh/PCL) have been fabricated through elec...
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A Thermal-Responsive Y-Shaped Miktoarm Amphiphilic Block Copolymer Composed of Poly(ε-caprolactone) and Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) as a Nano-micellar Carrier for Anti-cancer Drugs
A thermal-responsive Y-shaped amphiphilic block copolymer, namely poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-block-[poly(ε-caprolactone)]2 (PNIPAAm-b-PCL2), was synthesized through the combination of atom transfer radical polyme...
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A dual stimuli-responsive star-shaped nanocarrier as de novo drug delivery system for chemotherapy of solid tumors
A novel pH- and temperature-responsive star-shaped terpolymer, namely star shaped-poly(ε-caprolactone)-grafted-[poly(N,N′-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate-block-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)] [s-PCL-g-(PDMAEMA-b-PN...
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Synthesis and characterization of electroactive bottlebrush nano-copolymers based on polystyrene and polyaniline as side chains and poly(3-(2-hydroxyethyl)thiophene) as backbone
Electroactive bottlebrush copolymers were synthesized via grafting of polystyrene (PSt) and polyaniline (PANI) from poly(3-(2-hydroxyethyl)thiophene) backbones by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) an...
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Conducting polymer-based electrically conductive adhesive materials: design, fabrication, properties, and applications
In the past few decades, increasing demands for electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs) have led to growing interest in the design and development of innovative strategies to obtain materials with synergetic ...
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Porous conductive and biocompatible scaffolds on the basis of polycaprolactone and polythiophene for scaffolding
The fabrication of novel scaffolds was represented on the basis of conductive and biodegradable copolymers. The star-like polycaprolactone (S-PCL) was synthesized from dipentaerythritol as a core by a catalyst...
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A de novo theranostic nanomedicine composed of PEGylated graphene oxide and gold nanoparticles for cancer therapy
A de novo drug delivery nanosystem based on gold nanoparticles (GNPs), decorated poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), and folate (FA)-conjugated graphene oxide (GO) was designed and developed successfully. Initially, ...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Electrode buffer layers via networks of polythiophene/polyaniline bottlebrushes and carbon nanotubes in organic solar cells
A new p-type electrode buffer layer (EBL) material was developed by the networks composed of multi-walled CNTs (MWCNTs) and poly(3-thiophene ethanol) (P3ThEt)-g-polyaniline (PANI) bottlebrush copolymers. The nano...
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pH-responsive nanosystems based on reduced graphene oxide grafted with polycaprolactone-block-poly(succinyloxyethylmethacrylate) for doxorubicin release
pH-responsive nanocarriers were synthesized via polycaprolactone-b-poly(succinyloxyethylmethacrylate) copolymers grafted onto reduced graphene oxide (rGO-g-PCL-b-PSEMA) for anticancer drug delivery applications. ...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Engineered organic halide perovskite solar cells by incorporation of surface-manipulated graphenic nanosheets
The reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and rGO-g-poly(3-dodecyl thiophene) (PDDT) precursors were applied in the active layers of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells. The rGO-g-PDDT modified perovskite devices represente...
