Wing‐Fu Lai

ORCID: 0000-0003-0585-6396
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Research Areas
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Advanced Drug Delivery Systems
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
  • Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging
  • Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
  • Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications
  • Polymer composites and self-healing
  • Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Silk-based biomaterials and applications

University of Leeds
2023-2025

Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2012-2024

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
2019-2024

Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital
2021-2024

Hangzhou Medical College
2021-2024

University of Bristol
2021-2023

Shenzhen University
2015-2021

Sri Krishnadevaraya University
2021

Shenzhen University Health Science Center
2017-2019

Health Sciences Centre
2017

Cancer is a severe disease that results in death all countries of the world. A nano-based drug delivery approach best alternative, directly targeting cancer tumor cells with improved cellular uptake. Different types nanoparticle-based carriers are advanced for treatment cancer, and to increase therapeutic effectiveness safety therapy, many substances have been looked into as carriers. Lipid-based nanoparticles (LBNPs) significantly attracted interest recently. These natural biomolecules...

10.3389/fonc.2024.1296091 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Oncology 2024-04-10

10.1016/j.jddst.2020.101916 article EN Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology 2020-07-17

Skin is an attractive site for drug administration partly because of its easy accessibility and favorable properties (e.g., less invasiveness high patient compliance) over some other common routes administration. Despite this, the efficiency in transdermal delivery has been largely limited by poor skin permeation. To address this problem, study reports generation oleic acid-containing vesicles, which can enhance while showing good stability disruption. Upon being loaded into a complex gel,...

10.3390/pharmaceutics12080725 article EN cc-by Pharmaceutics 2020-08-02

Herbal medicine, as an integral component of oriental has assimilated into the lives Asian people for millennia. The therapeutic efficiency herbal extracts and ingredients has, however, been limited by various factors, including lack targeting capacity poor bioavailability. Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymer networks that can imbibe a substantial amount fluids. They biocompatible, may enable sustained drug release. Hydrogels, therefore, have attracted widespread studies in pharmaceutical...

10.1021/acsami.6b16120 article EN ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2017-02-28

Hydrogels are soft materials consisting of a three-dimensional network polymer chains. Over the years, hydrogels with different compositions have been developed as drug carriers for diverse biomedical applications, ranging from cancer therapy and wound care to treatment neurodegenerative inflammatory diseases. Most these carriers, however, designed only deliver single agents. Carriers based on co-delivery multiple agents, release rate each co-delivered agents tunable, lacking. This study...

10.1016/j.ajps.2020.05.003 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 2020-06-25

The development of combination therapy has received great attention in recent years because its potential to achieve higher therapeutic efficacy than that achieved by mono-drug therapy. Carriers for effective and stimuli-responsive co-delivery multiple agents, however, are highly deficient at the moment. To address this need, study reports generation multi-component hydrogel beads incorporated with reduced graphene oxide (rGO). prepared incorporating doxorubicin (DOX)-loaded gelatine (GL)...

10.3390/pharmaceutics13030313 article EN cc-by Pharmaceutics 2021-02-28

Purpose: Magnetic nanoparticles have been used in diverse pharmaceutical applications because they can potentially be to target specific sites. In the present work, a new type of nanocomposites is designed as carrier controlled bioactive agent delivery. Methods: Amine-functionalized magnetic (amine-MNPs) are coupled with carboxymethyl chitosan (CMC) generate nanocomposites, namely MNPs-CMC, which further loaded doxorubicin (DOX) produce MNPs-CMC-DOX. The generated characterized by using...

10.2147/ijn.s338897 article EN cc-by-nc International Journal of Nanomedicine 2022-02-01

Hydrogels are an important class of soft materials that find use in bioactive agent delivery. Because their high water content, hydrogels generally show poor mechanical strength. Long-term wear and tear physiological conditions may lead to damage the hydrogel structure during delivery agents. This results burst uncontrolled release. One strategy solve this problem is incorporate self-healing properties into a so can heal fractures automatically restore original properties. The objectives...

10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00874 article EN Molecular Pharmaceutics 2021-04-05

Gelatine methacryloyl (GM) shows high biocompatibility and is extensively used in tissue engineering; however, few works have explored the use of GM bioactive agent delivery. This study adopts a microfluidic approach involving flow-focusing geometry for microgel fabrication. generates highly monodisperse microgels whose size can be tuned by altering various fabrication conditions (including concentration gel-forming solution flow rates different phases). By using tetracycline hydrochloride...

10.3390/pharmaceutics13060787 article EN cc-by Pharmaceutics 2021-05-25

The present study reports the generation of 2-hydroxyethyl starch microparticles for co-delivery and controlled release multiple agents. obtained are characterized by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction analysis, energy-dispersive electron microscopy. By ofloxacin ketoprofen as drug models, sustainability is examined at pH 1.2, 5.4, 6.8 37 °C, with Fickian diffusion being found to be major mechanism controlling kinetics release....

10.1080/10717544.2021.1955043 article EN cc-by Drug Delivery 2021-01-01

This study reports the synthesis of surface-modified chitosan (CS) coated with reduced graphene oxide/nickel oxide (rGO/NiO) as a multifunctional drug carrier anti-microbial, target-specific, and stimuli-responsive capacities. CS, rGO, NiO nanoparticles are selected due to their pH-responsiveness, large surface area, ROS generating-capacity, respectively. The CS/rGO/NiO nanocomposites (NCs) synthesized using solvothermal approach. Glutaraldehyde is used crosslink CS rGO/NiO enhance stability...

10.2147/ijn.s489418 article EN cc-by-nc International Journal of Nanomedicine 2025-02-01

Polyelectrolyte complexes formed between chitosan (CS) and anionic polymers have attracted increasing interest in drug delivery. In this study, CS is copolymerized with hypromellose via a coupling reagent-mediated approach to form water-soluble, nontoxic derivative, namely hypromellose-graft-CS (HC), which subsequently complexed carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) generate polyampholytic hydrogel. When compared conventional CS, HC highly water-soluble across wide pH range, has substantially higher...

10.1021/acsami.5b01984 article EN ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2015-05-06
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