Design of bioinspired materials that mimic the extracellular matrix (ECM) at the nanoscale is
a challenge in tissue engineering. While nanofibrillar gelatin materials mimic chemical …

Fibrous biopolymeric collagen extracted from animal tissues has been widely used for
fabricating matrices for bone tissue engineering (BTE). However, animal extracted collagens …

The topographical micro-patterning of nanofibrillar collagen gels is promising for the
fabrication of biofunctional constructs mimicking topographical cell microenvironments of in …

Side chain modification of collagen provides an attractive way to enhance their structure and
functions, which is highly desirable for the development of promising biomaterials. However …

Cell-laden structures play a pivotal role in various tissue engineering applications,
particularly in tissue restoration. Interactions between cells within bioprinted structures are …

We report an artificially fabricated extracellular matrix (ECM)-like nanostructure, which
utilizes self-assembly of collagen and hyaluronic acid in a quasi two-dimensional space of …

Technological improvements in collagen gel fabrication are highly desirable as they may
enable significant advances in the formation of tissue-equivalent biomaterials for …

In the field of tissue engineering, recombinant protein-based biomaterials made up of block
polypeptides with tunable properties arising from the functionalities of the individual …

Collagen is used extensively for tissue engineering due to its prevalence in connective
tissues and its role in defining tissue biophysical and biological signalling properties …

Native collagen is arranged in bundles of aligned fibrils to withstand in vivo mechanical
loads. Reproducing such a process under in vitro conditions has not met with major success …