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Materials like nanogel and hydrogel have numerous uses, especially in the biomedical and pharmaceutical sectors. Their abilities to load pharmaceuticals of all kinds, including hydrophobic ones and biomolecules, while maintaining form and mechanical qualities, as well as their capacity to absorb large amounts of aqueous solutions, offer a notion of their diversity and growing demand. Numerous techniques of synthesis have been identified, particularly for chemical/permanent hydrogels, as they have been studied extensively over a long period of time. Like this, stimuli-responsive hydrogels, commonly referred to as intelligent materials, have been investigated in order to improve the regulation of qualities like targeting and drug release. The uses for the so-called twenty-first-century materials have been expanded even further by studying hydrogel on the micro- and nanoscales and manipulating the particle size. Our goal in writing this article was to provide a summary of recent research on the synthesis processes, biological uses, and pharmaceutical applications of macro-, micro-, and nanogels.
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Sahu, P., Kashaw, S.K., Kashaw, V., Iyer, A.K. (2023). Functional Nanogels and Hydrogels: A Multipronged Nanotherapy in Drug Delivery and Imaging. In: Jain, K., Jain, N.K. (eds) Multifunctional And Targeted Theranostic Nanomedicines. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0538-6_11
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