Biocompatible, amphiphilic triblock polymer composed of a hydrophilic, central PEG block and two terminal hydrophobic PCL blocks. These materials have been used in drug delivery applications as well as thermoplastic elastomers. Well-defined materials with varying properties can be prepared by controlling the relative length of each polymer block. Hydroxyl termination allows for facile further chemical modification of these materials.
Poly(caprolactone)-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(caprolactone) (PCL-PEG-PCL) nanoparticles: a valuable and efficient system for in vitro and in vivo delivery of curcumin.
Manjili HK, et al.
Royal Society of Chemistry Advances, 6, 14403-14415 (2016)
Synthesis and microphase separation of biodegradable poly(ε-caprolactone)-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(ε-caprolactone) multiblock copolymer films.
International journal of pharmaceutics, 365(1-2), 89-99 (2008-09-17)
In this work, a series of biodegradable triblock poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(epsilon-caprolactone)-poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG-PCL-PEG, PECE) copolymers were successfully synthesized by ring-opening copolymerization, and were characterized by (1)H NMR, FT-IR, GPC, and DSC. Aqueous solutions of PECE copolymers underwent thermosensitive sol-gel-sol transition as
Synthesis and Characterization of PEG-PCL-PEG Triblock Copolymers as Carriers of Doxorubicin for the Treatment of Breast Cancer.
Cuong NV, et al.
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 117, 3694-3703 (2010)
