Innovative Nanocarriers for Stimulated Drug Delivery
A Comprehensive Guide to Stimuli-responsive Nanoparticles
- 1st Edition - March 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Prashant Kesharwani
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 6 4 1 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 6 4 2 - 3
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Innovative Nanocarriers for Stimulated Drug Delivery is a comprehensive guide that summarizes the recent advances and achievements in nanocarriers that are responsive to external or internal stimuli. The book presents different stimuli-sensitive strategies and their applications in drug delivery, therapy, and theranostics. Intended for pharmaceutical researchers in both academia and corporate settings, and graduate students the coverage spans from the foundational aspects of these particles all the way to regulation and clinical trials. The book is organized into six parts. Part I provides the foundation of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers, including fundamental knowledge on the experiential and experimental aspects of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers. Part II discusses external-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical applications, such as ultrasound, thermal, magnetic, light, and electric field-response systems. Part III describes internal stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical applications, including pH, hypoxia, redox potential, enzyme, glucose, and microRNA-responsive nanocarriers. Part IV covers dual and multimodal-responsive nanocarriers, while Part V discusses therapeutic aspects of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers, such as metallic and non-metallic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers in the treatment of various cancer and noncancerous diseases. Finally, Part VI provides recent advances and regulatory aspects of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers, including clinical translation, challenges, biological toxicity, safety issues, clinical trials, and future perspectives. Innovative Nanocarriers for Stimulated Drug Delivery is a complete reference, providing an understanding of the principles behind formation, characterization, applications, regulations, toxicity, challenges, and future perspectives of stimuli-responsive nanomedicine. The book is written by established worldwide experts, ensuring that the content of this book meets the needs of the audience. This book is an essential reference for anyone interested in the field of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers, including researchers and scientists in pharmaceutical industries as well as graduate students in related fields.
- Covers all aspects of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery
- includes external, internal, and dual/multi-modal stimuli response-driven nanoparticles
- Contains a therapeutic application dedicated section, covering the translation from research to practice in the area
Pharmaceutical Scientists in academia and corporate settings
Part I - Foundations of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
1. Fundamental of stimuli-responsive materials in drug delivery
2. History, introduction, and physicochemical properties and characterization parameters of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
Part II – External-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
3. Ultrasound-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
4. Thermal-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
5. Magnetic-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
6. Light-sensitive nanocarriers for biomedical application
7. Electric field-response systems for biomedical application
Part III – Internal stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
8. pH-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
9. Hypoxia-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
10. Redox-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
11. Enzyme-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
12. Glucose-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
13. microRNA responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
Part IV – Dual and multimodal-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
14. Temperature and pH dual-stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
15. pH and redox potential dual-stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
16. Dual-stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
17. Stimuli-responsive charge-reversal nanocarriers for biomedical application
18. Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for image-guided therapy
Part V – Therapeutic aspects of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
19. Metallic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers in the treatment of various cancer
20. Non-metallic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers in the treatment of various cancer
21. Metallic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers in the treatment of noncancerous disease
22. Non-metallic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers in the treatment of noncancerous disease
Part VI – Recent advances and regulatory aspects of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
23. Clinical translation, challenges, biological toxicity and safety issues associated with stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
24. Recent updates on clinical trials associated with stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
25. Limitations, hurdles conclusion and future prospective of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
1. Fundamental of stimuli-responsive materials in drug delivery
2. History, introduction, and physicochemical properties and characterization parameters of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
Part II – External-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
3. Ultrasound-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
4. Thermal-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
5. Magnetic-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
6. Light-sensitive nanocarriers for biomedical application
7. Electric field-response systems for biomedical application
Part III – Internal stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
8. pH-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
9. Hypoxia-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
10. Redox-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
11. Enzyme-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
12. Glucose-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
13. microRNA responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
Part IV – Dual and multimodal-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
14. Temperature and pH dual-stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
15. pH and redox potential dual-stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
16. Dual-stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for biomedical application
17. Stimuli-responsive charge-reversal nanocarriers for biomedical application
18. Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for image-guided therapy
Part V – Therapeutic aspects of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
19. Metallic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers in the treatment of various cancer
20. Non-metallic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers in the treatment of various cancer
21. Metallic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers in the treatment of noncancerous disease
22. Non-metallic stimuli-responsive nanocarriers in the treatment of noncancerous disease
Part VI – Recent advances and regulatory aspects of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
23. Clinical translation, challenges, biological toxicity and safety issues associated with stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
24. Recent updates on clinical trials associated with stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
25. Limitations, hurdles conclusion and future prospective of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 1, 2026
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Prashant Kesharwani
Dr. Prashant Kesharwani is assistant professor of Pharmaceutics at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has more than 12 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience at international levels from various countries, including the United States, Malaysia, and India. An overarching goal of his current research is the development of nanoengineered drug delivery systems for various diseases. He has more than 350 international publications in well-reputed journals and more than 25 international books (Elsevier). He is a recipient of many research grants from various funding bodies. He is also the recipient of several internationally acclaimed awards, such as “USERN Laureate award”, most prestigious “SERB-Ramanujan Fellowship Award”. He actively participates in outreach and scientific dissemination for the service of the wider community. His Number of citations is = 26779; h-index = 85; i-10 index = 370 (According to google scholar on March 2025). He has more than 30 international publications published in very high impact factor journals (Progress in Polymer Sciences IF 32.063, Molecular Sciences IF 41.444, Progress in Material Sciences IF 48.580, Advanced Materials IF 29.4, Drug Resistance Update IF 22.841 and Material Todays IF 32.072). He has presented many invited talks and oral presentations at prestigious scientific peer-conferences, received international acclaims and awards for research contribution, supervised students/junior researchers and actively participated in outreach and scientific dissemination for the service of the wider community.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India