Harry R. Allcock

TL;DR: Novel polyphosphazenes containing various vitamin substituents were synthesized and characterized, and their sensitivity to hydrolysis and pH behavior was investigated, making these materials promising candidates for hard tissue engineering scaffolds.

TL;DR: In this article, biodegradable polymeric compositions are provided, wherein biodegrable polyphosphazenes are combined with at least one other polymer, either in the form of a blend, a semi-interpenetrating network (semi-IPN), or an interpenetrated network IPN The side groups and composition of the polyphazenes were used to determine the properties of the compositions, for example, the rate and extent of degradation, and mechanical properties.

TL;DR: In this article, pendent dialkyl phosphonate units were added to aryloxyphosphazenes at both the polymeric and cyclic trimer levels.

TL;DR: The exploitation of the synthetic flexibility of polyphosphazene will allow the design of novel polymers, which can form miscible blends with PLAGA for biomedical applications, which constitute ideal materials for regeneration of various musculoskeletal tissues.

TL;DR: In this paper, the carboxylic acid moiety of the amino acids L-alanine and L-phenylalanine were protected with alkyl esters with increasing chain length from 5 to 8 carbon atoms.