Abstract
Polymer science has enriched the domain and practice of modified/controlled drug delivery systems over the last decade. The newer and novel polymeric systems are catering the ever-changing canvass of drug delivery system. Polymers have shown a great promise in the field of drug delivery technology. Some of the recently developed novel polymeric systems have inherent properties of sustained and controlled release profile of medicinal substances over a longer period of time, localized therapeutic effect, and a synchronized release pattern of both hydrophilic and lipophilic drugs. The novel polymeric systems have opened newer frontiers in various disease therapies. It has turned out to be a multidisciplinary science where a well-coordinated knowledge of biology, chemistry, and engineering is required. With the advent of various synthetic polymers having self-tunable and assembly properties, it has revolutionized the drug delivery systems and dosage form design. The recently developed polymers have not only the unique ability of intracellular delivery of therapeutics but also have stimuli-responsive property, gene delivery ability, and biomimicking ability. This chapter encompasses some of the recently developed polymer-linker systems as well as their structural and functional consideration in nitty-gritty details.
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