Design, Synthesis of Polymers-based Hybrid Materials for Biosensing and Building Stimuli-Responsive Architectures

Dear Colleagues,

The field of smart” or “intelligent” polymers,or stimuli-responsive polymers, has commanded significant interest over the past decade. Careful introduction of specific polymeric modalities makes the polymeric nanosystem to the stimuli‐responsive sustems performing extraordinary functions in response to trigger such as pH, temperature, redox, enzymes, light, magnetic, or ultrasound. Recently, the application of stimuli-responsive organic polymers and functional materials hybrid systems have been enmerging as a promising nanotechnology. Incorporation of fuctionla materials s such as organic materials, gold, silica, or iron oxide with surface‐bound stimuli‐responsive polymers offers additional advantages and multifunctionality. We would like to invite the authors to submit their original and high-quality research on:

• design/synthesis of stimuli-responsive polymers;
• development of polymers-based hybrid materials with response to triggers such as pH, temperature, redox, enzymes, light, magnetic, or ultrasound for enviroment monitoring;
• application of polymers-based hybrid materials in drug delivery, amaging or photochemical therapeutics.

Prof. Dr. Chengfen Xing
Dr. Dong Gao
Guest Editors

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• Biosensing
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