Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

Colloidal self-assembly approaches to smart nanostructured materials

Z Li, Q Fan, Y Yin - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Colloidal self-assembly refers to a solution-processed assembly of nanometer-/micrometer-
sized, well-dispersed particles into secondary structures, whose collective properties are …

An electrically conductive silver–polyacrylamide–alginate hydrogel composite for soft electronics

Y Ohm, C Pan, MJ Ford, X Huang, J Liao, C Majidi - Nature Electronics, 2021 - nature.com
Hydrogels offer tissue-like compliance, stretchability, fracture toughness, ionic conductivity
and compatibility with biological tissues. However, their electrical conductivity (< 100 S cm …

Electroactive biomaterials and systems for cell fate determination and tissue regeneration: design and applications

Z Liu, X Wan, ZL Wang, L Li - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During natural tissue regeneration, tissue microenvironment and stem cell niche including
cell–cell interaction, soluble factors, and extracellular matrix (ECM) provide a train of …

Natural biopolymer-based biocompatible conductors for stretchable bioelectronics

C Wang, T Yokota, T Someya - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Biocompatible conductors are important components for soft and stretchable bioelectronics
for digital healthcare, which have attracted extensive research efforts. Natural biopolymers …

Injectable and conductive cardiac patches repair infarcted myocardium in rats and minipigs

L Wang, Y Liu, G Ye, Y He, B Li, Y Guan… - Nature Biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Cardiac patches can help to restore the electrophysiological properties of the heart after
myocardial infarction. However, scaffolds for the repair of heart muscle typically require …

Tissue adhesive hydrogel bioelectronics

S Li, Y Cong, J Fu - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Flexible bioelectronics have promising applications in electronic skin, wearable devices,
biomedical electronics, etc. Hydrogels have unique advantages for bioelectronics due to …

[HTML][HTML] Biofabrication of natural hydrogels for cardiac, neural, and bone Tissue engineering Applications

K Elkhoury, M Morsink, L Sanchez-Gonzalez, C Kahn… - Bioactive materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Natural hydrogels are one of the most promising biomaterials for tissue engineering
applications, due to their biocompatibility, biodegradability, and extracellular matrix …

Magnetic nanocomposite hydrogels for tissue engineering: design concepts and remote actuation strategies to control cell fate

A Pardo, M Gómez-Florit, S Barbosa, P Taboada… - Acs Nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Most tissues of the human body are characterized by highly anisotropic physical properties
and biological organization. Hydrogels have been proposed as scaffolding materials to …

Nanoengineered peptide‐based antimicrobial conductive supramolecular biomaterial for cardiac tissue engineering

P Chakraborty, H Oved, D Bychenko, Y Yao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to their dynamic nature and ordered architecture, supramolecular materials strikingly
resemble organic components of living systems. Although short‐peptide self‐assembled …