Publications by authors named "Faye Y Hern"
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- TBRT and ATRP are two different ways to start making plastics from vinyl materials.
- This text talks about combining both methods for the first time.
- They made strong, branched polyester materials that can create special star-shaped plastics using different types of building blocks called methacrylate monomers.
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- Scientists have been using special drug-carrier combinations called polymer-drug conjugates for a long time to help deliver tough medicines that don't dissolve well or can be harmful.
- These combinations can help make medicines work longer in the body and reduce side effects using different ways to give them, like shots or implants.
- This study looks at a new way to use a medicine called emtricitabine (FTC) by creating special materials that can slowly release it over more than two weeks, which could make treatments better in the future.
Long-acting drug delivery is a growing area of interest as it overcomes many challenges related to patient adherence to therapy and the pill burden associated with chronic illness. Injectable formulations are becoming more common and drug-releasing implants also provide several opportunities. Highly water soluble drug compounds are poor candidates for long-acting delivery.
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- Scientists have found a way to create new materials that can behave differently by mixing different types of chemical structures!
- They used special chemicals to make different types of 'chains' that influence how tiny particles act in liquids, especially when the acidity changes!
- The particles they created can hold and release other materials depending on the environment, which can help in various applications like medicine!
The combination of linear polymers with dendritic chain-ends has led to numerous studies of linear-dendritic polymer hybrid materials. Interchain branching within the linear segment of these materials has recently extended this concept to the formation of soluble hyperbranched-polydendrons. Here, the introduction of amphiphilicity into hyperbranched-polydendrons has been achieved for the first time through the use of tertiary amine functional dendritic chain-ends and branched hydrophobic polymer segments.
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