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Published in final edited form as: J Mater Chem B. 2020 Jun 17;8(31):6588–6609. doi: 10.1039/d0tb00681e

Table 4.

Functional CVD polymers for drug delivery.

Polymer	Acronym	Property / Performance ^a	CVD Technique
Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)	pHEMA	Hydrophilic, Swelling behavior / Controlled drug release	iCVD^{140,141,149,210}
Poly(methacrylic acid)	pMAA	pH-responsive, Hydrophilic / Triggerable drug release	iCVD^140,141,149
Poly (perfluorodecylacrylate)	pPFDA	Hydrophobic / Controlled drug release	iCVD¹⁴¹
Poly(N,N-dimethyl aminoethyl methacrylate -co-ethylene glycol diacrylate)	pDMAEMA-co-EGDA	Hydrophilic / Controlled drug release	iCVD¹⁴²
Poly(4-vinylpyridine-co-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate)	p4VP-co-EGDMA	pH-responsive, Amphiphilic / Triggerable drug release	iCVD¹⁴³
Poly(methacrylic acid-co-ethylene dimethacrylate)	pMAA-co-EDMA	pH-responsive, Hydrophilic / Triggerable drug release	iCVD^144,147
Poly(methacrylic anhydride-co-methacrylic acid)	pMAH-co-MAA	pH-responsive, Amphiphilic / Triggerable drug release	iCVD¹⁴⁸
Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)	pNIPAAm	Temperature-responsive, Hydrophilic / Triggerable drug release	iCVD¹⁴⁹

Controlled drug release and triggerable drug release are different: the latter requires that the release of drug can be triggered by one or multiple environmental stimuli (e.g. pH and/or temperature); whereas the former emphasizes the capability to modulate the kinetics of drug release, without specifying any control over the onset of the release process.