Galactose-functionalized injectable thermosensitive microgels for target specific uptake in hepatoma cells.

Microgels acts as a potential candidate for responsive composite materials, which has been favored by scientists because of its excellent colloid stability, easy integration, and most of their surface area can be used as support after modification. Specififically, microgels are fascinating capable of maintaining good biocompatibility and controlled-release in vivo and making the possible for applications in biomaterials and biomedicines. Besides, in the process of microgel synthesis, some targeting factors can be combined to achieve the purpose of cell targeting and uptake. Therefore, how to fundamentally design microgels is an urgent problem to be solved. In this study, we design and synthesize an injectable microgel P(DEGMA-