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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 7.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Mater. 2018 May 7:e1705328. doi: 10.1002/adma.201705328

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Examples of biomaterials and their routes of administration for in vivo use. In addition to pills and injections, biomaterials have been developed to successfully administer drugs in a variety of other ways. Images for ocular delivery: left: Reproduced with permission.[150b] Copyright 2014, American Chemical Society; right: reproduced with permission.[237a] Copyright 2014, Elsevier. Images for buccal delivery: reproduced with permission.[237e] Copyright 2015, Elsevier. Images for pulmonary delivery: left: reproduced with permission.[12e] Copyright 1997, American Association for the Advancement of Science; right: reproduced with permission.[237f] Copyright 2009, Springer Science. Images for systemic delivery: reproduced with permission.[237d] Copyright 2016, National Academy of Sciences, USA. Images for surgical implantation: left: reproduced with permission.[237b] copyright 2002, Adis International; right: reproduced with permission.[237c] Copyright 1998, Elsevier. Images for oral delivery: reproduced with permission.[237g] Copyright 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Images for transdermal delivery: reproduced with permission.[170j] Copyright 2015, National Academy of Sciences, USA. Images for vaginal delivery: reproduced with permission.[237h] Copyright 2017, Elsevier.