The concept of biodegradable plastics is of considerable interest with respect to solid waste
accumulation. Greater efforts have been made in developing degradable biological …

Advanced drug delivery systems (DDS) present indubitable benefits for drug administration.
Over the past three decades, new approaches have been suggested for the development of …

Gellan Gum (GG) has been recently proposed for tissue engineering applications. GG
hydrogels are produced by physical crosslinking methods induced by temperature variation …

Recent studies have demonstrated the effect of matrix stiffness on the phenotype and
differentiation pathway of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). MSCs differentiated into neural …

β-Hairpin peptide-based hydrogels are a class of injectable hydrogel solids with significant
potential use in injectable therapies. β-hairpin peptide hydrogels can be injected as …

Hydrogels are an important class of highly hydrated polymers that are widely investigated for
potential use in soft tissue engineering. Generally, however, hydrogels lack the ability to …

Synthetic hydrogels are important biomaterials for many biomedical applications and
hydrogels produced via photo-gelation have shown particular promise. In this paper, we …

Stem cells offer great promise for regenerative medicine because of their pluripotency and
their ability for self-renewal; however, their use in clinical treatments requires knowledge of …

A water-soluble hyperbranched polyphosphate (HPHEEP) was synthesized through the self-
condensation ring-opening polymerization (SCROP) of 2-(2-hydroxyethoxy) ethoxy-2-oxo-1 …

Novel pH-and temperature-responsive double-hydrophilic diblock copolymers, poly
(ethylethylene phosphate)-block-poly [2-(dimethylamino) ethyl methacrylate](PEEP-b …