Design and applications of photoresponsive hydrogels

L Li, JM Scheiger, PA Levkin - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are the most relevant biochemical scaffold due to their tunable properties,
inherent biocompatibility, and similarity with tissue and cell environments. Over the past …

Photocleavable Ortho-Nitrobenzyl-Protected DNA Architectures and Their Applications

MP O'Hagan, Z Duan, F Huang, S Laps, J Dong… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This review article introduces mechanistic aspects and applications of photochemically
deprotected ortho-nitrobenzyl (ONB)-functionalized nucleic acids and their impact on …

Smart stimuli-responsive implantable drug delivery systems for programmed and on-demand cancer treatment: An overview on the emerging materials

Z Mazidi, S Javanmardi, SM Naghib… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite noteworthy developments in tumor therapy, cancer is still one of the main reasons
for death worldwide. While present cures supply hopeful marks, they trigger harsh …

Light responsive hydrogels for controlled drug delivery

Y Xing, B Zeng, W Yang - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Light is an easy acquired, effective and non-invasive external stimulus with great flexibility
and focusability. Thus, light responsive hydrogels are of particular interests to researchers in …

Light manipulation for fabrication of hydrogels and their biological applications

K Peng, L Zheng, T Zhou, C Zhang, H Li - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of biocompatible materials with desired functions is essential for tissue
engineering and biomedical applications. Hydrogels prepared from these materials …

Photo-responsive Polymers based on ο-Nitrobenzyl Derivatives: From Structural Design to Applications

T Liu, B Bao, Y Li, Q Lin, L Zhu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract ο-Nitrobenzyl (ONB) derivatives are one of the most investigated photo-responsive
functional group that features irreversible photolysis under a light stimulus. They are ease of …

Photolabile linkers: exploiting labile bond chemistry to control mode and rate of hydrogel degradation and protein release

PJ LeValley, R Neelarapu, BP Sutherland… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photolabile moieties have been utilized in applications ranging from peptide synthesis and
controlled protein activation to tunable and dynamic materials. The photochromic properties …

Stimuli-responsive destructible polymeric hydrogels based on irreversible covalent bond dissociation

S Shahi, H Roghani-Mamaqani, S Talebi… - Polymer …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covalently crosslinked stimuli-destructible hydrogels with the ability of irreversible stimuli-
controlled bond dissociation have attracted great attention due to their easy preparation …

Photomechanical polymer hydrogels based on molecular photoswitches

PF Luo, SL Xiang, C Li, MQ Zhu - Journal of Polymer Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As intelligent materials responsive to light, photomechanical hydrogels not only possess
high‐water content, excellent softness and biocompatibility, but also can accomplish various …

Soft Sub‐Structured Multi‐Material Biosensor Hydrogels with Enzymes Retained by Plant Viral Scaffolds

J Grübel, T Wendlandt, D Urban… - Macromolecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
An all‐soft multi‐material combination consisting of a hydrogel based on poly (ethylene
glycol)(PEG) coated with spatially defined spots of gelatin methacryloyl (GM) containing …