Bioinspired hydrogels as platforms for life-science applications: Challenges and opportunities

M Bercea - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hydrogels with natural or synthetic origin can be engineered … The specific features of hydrogels
make them suitable for a … advances in the field of bioinspired hydrogels that can serve as …

Fabrication of bioinspired hydrogels: challenges and opportunities

H Fan, JP Gong - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
… Tomorrow’s bioinspired hydrogels should be more complex; they should have not only a …
We believe that the research on bioinspired hydrogels will enable the next generation of …

Bioinspired hydrogel actuator for soft robotics: Opportunity and challenges

Y Chen, Y Zhang, H Li, J Shen, F Zhang, J He, J Lin… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
hydrogel materials be transformed into bio-inspired actuators/robots? (3) What are the
application scenarios for bioinspired … Based on these questions, we discuss a series of hydrogel

Recent advances in bioinspired hydrogels: materials, Devices, and Biosignal Computing

Y Zhu, R Haghniaz, MC Hartel, L Mou… - ACS biomaterials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
bioinspired hydrogels tailored for wearable devices. Next, we will discuss the recent progress
of bioinspired hydrogel … , unique challenges and applications for hydrogels are constantly …

Bio-inspired hydrogels with fibrous structure: A review on design and biomedical applications

Y Chen, Y Hao, A Mensah, P Lv, Q Wei - Biomaterials Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
… the challenges and opportunities towards fibrous hydrogels … Thus, bio-inspired hydrogels
with fibrous architectures have … Here, we review fabrication strategies for fibrous hydrogels and …

Bioinspired hydrogels build a bridge from bench to bedside

K Seidi, MH Ayoubi-Joshaghani, M Azizi, T Javaheri… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
… To address these challenges, polyphosphoester hydrogels inspired by complementary
nucleobase hydrogen bonding that occurs in DNA were developed using the natural …

Diversity of bioinspired hydrogels: From structure to applications

A Lupu, LM Gradinaru, VR Gradinaru, M Bercea - Gels, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hydrogels can also be designed to be sensitive to external stimuli: temperature, pH, ionic …
of various hydrogels have been outlined in the literature over time. Some hydrogels are toxic …

Bioinspired polydopamine hydrogels: Strategies and applications

Y Xu, J Hu, J Hu, Y Cheng, X Chen, Z Gu… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
bioinspired PDA hydrogels. We start to introduce the PDA as the structural units in hydrogels
… materials, and conclude with a perspective on the remaining challenges and opportunities. …

Bioinspired hydrogels to engineer cancer microenvironments

KM Park, D Lewis, S Gerecht - Annual review of biomedical …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
… Although alginate-based hydrogels are useful in various biomedical applications, improving
their mechanical properties and bioactivity remains a challenge. To address these limitations…

Bio-inspired 3D microenvironments: a new dimension in tissue engineering

CM Magin, DL Alge, KS Anseth - Biomedical Materials, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
… field that address key challenges in tissue engineering as … , hydrogels are well suited for
creating bio-inspired materials that … In fact, the ECM can be considered as a prototypical hydrogel