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The New Era of Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels: Beyond Drug Delivery
Elena Giuliano1, Donato Cosco1
1Department of Health Sciences and "AGreenFood" Research Center, University of Catanzaro "Magna Græcia", Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", I-88100 Catanzaro, Italy.
Pharmaceutics
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Over the past two decades, advances in polymer chemistry and biomaterial engineering have driven the development of hydrogels from simple hydrated polymeric networks into multifunctional formulations capable of responding dynamically to changes in their surrounding environment [...].
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