Materials for smart soft actuator systems

I Apsite, S Salehi, L Ionov - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

Micro/nano functional devices fabricated by additive manufacturing

Z Huang, G Shao, L Li - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Micro/nano functional devices featuring deep integration, intelligence, and miniaturization
have attracted considerable attention in frontier areas of research, such as micro/nano …

Inkjet bioprinting of biomaterials

X Li, B Liu, B Pei, J Chen, D Zhou, J Peng… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The inkjet technique has the capability of generating droplets in the picoliter volume range,
firing thousands of times in a few seconds and printing in the noncontact manner. Since its …

Design, printing, and engineering of regenerative biomaterials for personalized bone healthcare

Z Jia, X Xu, D Zhu, Y Zheng - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Trauma-and disease-related skeletal defects and illnesses are plaguing millions of people
especially in an ageing globe. Recently, the convergence of additive manufacturing (AM) …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printing of hydrogels: Rational design strategies and emerging biomedical applications

J Li, C Wu, PK Chu, M Gelinsky - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D printing alias additive manufacturing can transform 3D virtual models created by
computer-aided design (CAD) into physical 3D objects in a layer-by-layer manner …

Fabrication of biomedical scaffolds using biodegradable polymers

A Kirillova, TR Yeazel, D Asheghali… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Degradable polymers are used widely in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Maturing capabilities in additive manufacturing coupled with advances in orthogonal …

Emerging 4D printing strategies for next‐generation tissue regeneration and medical devices

Y Wang, H Cui, T Esworthy, D Mei, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development of 3D printing has led to considerable progress in the field of
biomedical engineering. Notably, 4D printing provides a potential strategy to achieve a time …

Emerging 3D bioprinting applications in plastic surgery

P Yang, Y Ju, Y Hu, X Xie, B Fang, L Lei - Biomaterials research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Plastic surgery is a discipline that uses surgical methods or tissue transplantation to repair,
reconstruct and beautify the defects and deformities of human tissues and organs. Three …

Hydrogel-based fiber biofabrication techniques for skeletal muscle tissue engineering

M Volpi, A Paradiso, M Costantini… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The functional capabilities of skeletal muscle are strongly correlated with its well-arranged
microstructure, consisting of parallelly aligned myotubes. In case of extensive muscle loss …

Advances in Hydrogels in Organoids and Organs‐on‐a‐Chip

H Liu, Y Wang, K Cui, Y Guo, X Zhang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Significant advances in materials, microscale technology, and stem cell biology have
enabled the construction of 3D tissues and organs, which will ultimately lead to more …