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Drug Delivery Systems

Drug delivery systems are the materials, formulations and technologies used to carry a therapeutic agent to its site of action in the body and control how, where and when it is released. They include carriers such as nanoparticles, hydrogels, scaffolds, microcapsules and skin-penetration formulations, and they aim t…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 8 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 368× across the literature

Overview

Drug delivery systems are the materials, formulations and technologies used to carry a therapeutic agent to its site of action in the body and control how, where and when it is released. They include carriers such as nanoparticles, hydrogels, scaffolds, microcapsules and skin-penetration formulations, and they aim to improve efficacy and safety by enabling targeted, sustained or stimulus-responsive release while protecting the drug and limiting off-target effects. Biomaterials are central to this field, since the choice and design of the carrier material govern biocompatibility, degradation and release behaviour. Reflecting the biomaterials focus of this journal and its companion titles, related research includes a pH-sensitive nanomedicine developed for treating gynaecological cancers, the synthesis and assessment of a tetrahydrogeraniol derivative as a penetration enhancer for transdermal delivery, and studies of degradable scaffolds such as chitosan and calcium orthophosphate that can serve as matrices for controlled release. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to drug delivery systems and the materials and strategies used to control the transport and release of therapeutic agents.

Research published in this journal

8 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 8 articles above have been cited 368 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Nov 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Journal of Biomaterials.

Journal editorial board
Anil Sukumaran · Qatar Emad Tolba · Germany Esmaeil Mirzaei · Iran

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