Recently, Prof. Feng Xu from BEBC has published a research paper in Biomacromolecules entitled " Tough Magnetic Chitosan Hydrogel Nanocomposites for Remotely Stimulated Drug Release ".

Graphical Abstract

In this paper, in order to improve chitosan hydrogel’s properties as kind of common localized drug delivery system, overcome its back forwards such as poor mechanical properties, passive drug release behavior and lack of remote stimuli response, a facile in situ hybridization method was reported for fabricate tough magnetic chitosan hydrogel (MCH), which remotely switched drug release from passive release to pulsatile release under a low frequency alternating magnetic field (LAMF). The developed tough MCH system holds great potential for applications in smart drug release system with noninvasive characteristics and magnetic field stimulated drug release behavior.

This work is collaborated with Prof. Baoqiang Li from HIT, and other co-authors of the paper includes Yongliang Wang, Zhidong Han, Daqing Wei, Dechang Jia, and Yu Zhou.

Link for the article:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biomac.8b00636