Amino Acid‐Derived Smart and Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications: Current Status and Future Perspectives

Abstract

Amino acid‐derived smart and functional polymers have emerged as a promising class of biomaterials for diverse biomedical applications. In recent years, a wide range of such polymers with different compositions, macromolecular architectures and chain end functionalities have been prepared. Such polymers exhibited responsiveness to different external like chemical, physical, or biochemical stimuli. These stimuli include temperature, pH, metal ions, light, glucose, redox, or a combination of these factors. Thus developed smart and functional amino‐acid derived polymers have been employed in different biomedical and biotechnological applications, including but not limited to tissue engineering, drug delivery, wound healing, gene delivery, biosensors etc. Herein, we describe current state of the art and future perspectives of such amino acid‐derived smart and functional polymers which may be useful for researchers working towards the development of new amino acid‐derived polymeric materials for the construction of next generation of smart materials.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved