Nicholas A. Peppas

TL;DR: This review is a comprehensive evaluation and critical analysis of the design and fabrication of environmentally responsive cell-material constructs for bioinspired machinery and biomimetic devices for peptide delivery, cancer theranostics, biomonitoring, neuroprosthetics, soft robotics, and biological machines.

TL;DR: In this paper, a stochastic model is presented to predict the molecular weight dependence of the polymer fracture energy and strength for polymers with molecular weights higher than the critical value corresponding to the onset of entanglements.

TL;DR: In this paper, cross-linked polystyrene was examined at 50 and 70 o C. Dynamic swelling studies were performed in several penetrants including aromatic and aliphatic compounds.

TL;DR: In this article, the effective macromolecular structure of ten coals was investigated by application of a modified Gaussian network equation to the results of equilibrium vapour-swelling studies using pyridine as the penetrant.

TL;DR: Hydrogels synthesized and tested as carriers for the oral delivery of high isoelectric point (pI) exhibiting therapeutic proteins exhibit significantly greater delivery potential than methacrylic acid-based hydrogels and it is shown that utilizing a lower ionic strength solution during drug loading significantly improves drug delivery potential for high pI therapeutics.