Composites of polymer hydrogels and nanoparticulate systems for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications

Nanomaterials

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2054-2130

  Zhao, Fuli ^a   Yao, Dan ^a   Guo, Ruiwei ^a   Deng, Liandong ^a   Dong, Anjie ^a   Zhang, Jianhua ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications; Hybrid hydrogels; Hydrogels; Nanocomposite hydrogels; Nanocomposites; Nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949787723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano5042054     Document Type: Review

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