Microgels and Granular Gels: From Injectable Scaffolds and Bioinks to 3D Printing Supports

J Kajtez - JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments), 2023 - jove.com
ARTICLES DISCUSSED: Muir, VG, Prendergast, ME, Burdick, JA Fragmenting bulk
hydrogels and processing into granular hydrogels for biomedical applications. Journal of …

Fragmenting bulk hydrogels and processing into granular hydrogels for biomedical applications

VG Muir, ME Prendergast, JA Burdick - JoVE (Journal of Visualized …, 2022 - jove.com
Granular hydrogels are jammed assemblies of hydrogel microparticles (ie," microgels"). In
the field of biomaterials, granular hydrogels have many advantageous properties, including …

[HTML][HTML] Methods to Fragment Bulk Hydrogels and Process into Granular Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

VG Muir, ME Prendergast, JA Burdick - Journal of visualized …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Granular hydrogels are jammed assemblies of hydrogel microparticles (ie,“microgels”). In
the biomaterials field, granular hydrogels have many advantageous properties, including …

Gelatin Methacryloyl Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds: High-throughput Microgel Fabrication, Lyophilization, Chemical Assembly, and 3D Bioprinting

Z Ataie, A Jaberi, S Kheirabadi, A Risbud… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2022 - jove.com
The emergence of granular hydrogel scaffolds (GHS), fabricated via assembling hydrogel
microparticles (HMPs), has enabled microporous scaffold formation in situ. Unlike …

Hydrogels: Scalable High‐Throughput Production of Modular Microgels for In Situ Assembly of Microporous Tissue Scaffolds (Adv. Funct. Mater. 25/2019)

JM de Rutte, J Koh, D Di Carlo - Advanced Functional Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In article number 1900071, Dino Di Carlo and co-workers show that parallel drop generation
in a step emulsification device leads to large scale monodisperse microgel formation …

3D printing microporous scaffolds from modular bioinks containing sacrificial, cell-encapsulating microgels

AJ Seymour, D Kilian, RS Navarro, SM Hull… - Biomaterials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Microgel-based biomaterials have inherent porosity and are often extrudable, making them
well-suited for 3D bioprinting applications. Cells are commonly introduced into these …

Cell Culture: Designing Microgels for Cell Culture and Controlled Assembly of Tissue Microenvironments (Adv. Funct. Mater. 37/2020)

AS Caldwell, BA Aguado… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In article number 1907670, Kristi S. Anseth, Alexander S. Caldwell, and Brian A. Aguado
discuss micron-sized hydrogels (microgels), which have emerged as a versatile platform for …

Writing in the granular gel medium

T Bhattacharjee, SM Zehnder, KG Rowe, S Jain… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Gels made from soft microscale particles smoothly transition between the fluid and solid
states, making them an ideal medium in which to create macroscopic structures with …

Microfluidic synthesis of microgel building blocks for microporous annealed particle scaffold

C Roosa, L Pruett, J Trujillo, A Rodriguez… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2022 - jove.com
The microporous annealed particle (MAP) scaffold platform is a subclass of granular
hydrogels. It is composed of an injectable slurry of microgels that can form a structurally …

Packed hydrogel microfibers as a granular medium

GS Grewal, GT Helein, JL Sumey, SR Caliari… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Particle-based (granular) hydrogels are an attractive class of biomaterials due to their
unique properties and array of applications in the biomedical space-serving as platforms for …