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[资源] RSC2013年新书smart materials for drug delivery 已有10人参与

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Writing a book is an adventure, in words of Winston Churchill. Editing a book
is not lesser adventure. It is both a challenging and a rewarding task. We put a
foot in this adventure when Prof. Hans-Jo¨rg Schneider encouraged us to think
about a book project for the RSC Series on Smart Materials with a focus on
Drug Delivery; the second foot was put when the RSC Publications Committee
approved our proposal. The design and application of stimuli-responsive
materials is a growing field that benefits from contributions of people from
diverse backgrounds all around the world. Numerous drug delivery systems
with advanced performances based on the features of smart materials have
come up in the last years. A wide range of materials with diverse structure, their
processing for creating carriers of varied architecture, and the responsiveness to
physiological variables, to illness markers or to external stimuli useful for
triggering or switching on/off drug release are addressed in the present book. In
addition to small synthetic drugs, other classes of therapeutic molecules or even
cells are covered. A balance between novelty and clinical possibilities was the
criterion followed to choose the contents, which were organized as a function of
the carrier architecture and the stimulus that activates the release. Drug-device
combination products were also taken into account. An effort has been made to
not be lost in the particular details, but to prioritize the general concepts that
are behind the design and functioning of intelligent drug delivery systems.
It was truly rewarding when the invited contributors answered very positively
to the book project. We are in debt with all of them for their efforts on writing
comprehensive as well as educational chapters, covering in detail the stateof-the-art in each assigned topic. Our acknowledgement goes also to Prof.
Nicholas Peppas for his always encouraging comments and the kind foreword,
and to the people of the RSC editorial office, particularly Mrs. Alice TobyBrant, for providing an invaluable help with formal and not so formal aspects.
We finally would like to thank the readers of this book, from who we will be
very happy to receive comments and feedback. Working in the interface
between stimuli responsiveness and drug delivery is itself a tricky and long
adventure, but along the path outstanding advances for therapeutics are
already becoming a reality. We hope that this text would serve as a guide for the
beginners in the field and as a multidisciplinary meeting point for researchers
involved in quite diverse areas.

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