New developments in medical applications of hybrid hydrogels containing natural polymers

C Vasile, D Pamfil, E Stoleru, M Baican - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
New trends in biomedical applications of the hybrid polymeric hydrogels, obtained by
combining natural polymers with synthetic ones, have been reviewed …

Stimulus-responsive hydrogels: Theory, modern advances, and applications

MC Koetting, JT Peters, SD Steichen… - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the past century, hydrogels have emerged as effective materials for an immense variety
of applications. The unique network structure of hydrogels enables very high levels of …

25th anniversary article: engineering hydrogels for biofabrication

J Malda, J Visser, FP Melchels, T Jüngst… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
With advances in tissue engineering, the possibility of regenerating injured tissue or failing
organs has become a realistic prospect for the first time in medical history. Tissue …

Design properties of hydrogel tissue-engineering scaffolds

J Zhu, RE Marchant - Expert review of medical devices, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This article summarizes the recent progress in the design and synthesis of hydrogels as
tissue-engineering scaffolds. Hydrogels are attractive scaffolding materials owing to their …

Shear-thinning hydrogels for biomedical applications

M Guvendiren, HD Lu, JA Burdick - Soft matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Injectable hydrogels are becoming increasingly important in the fields of tissue engineering
and drug delivery due to their tunable properties, controllable degradation, high water …

An overview of the suitability of hydrogel-forming polymers for extrusion-based 3D-printing

DM Kirchmajer, R Gorkin Iii - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This review evaluates hydrogel-forming polymers that are suitable for soft tissue engineering
with a focus on materials that can be fabricated using additive manufacturing (3D-printing) …

Synthesis of bioactive protein hydrogels by genetically encoded SpyTag-SpyCatcher chemistry

F Sun, WB Zhang, A Mahdavi… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Protein-based hydrogels have emerged as promising alternatives to synthetic hydrogels for
biomedical applications, owing to the precise control of structure and function enabled by …

Peptide hydrogels

A Dasgupta, JH Mondal, D Das - Rsc Advances, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers an important class of soft-materials–peptide-based hydrogels,
distinctively focussing on the different types of small peptide/low molecular weight and …

Protein-based hydrogels: promising materials for tissue engineering

N Davari, N Bakhtiary, M Khajehmohammadi, S Sarkari… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
The successful design of a hydrogel for tissue engineering requires a profound
understanding of its constituents' structural and molecular properties, as well as the proper …

B12-dependent photoresponsive protein hydrogels for controlled stem cell/protein release

R Wang, Z Yang, J Luo, IM Hsing… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Thanks to the precise control over their structural and functional properties, genetically
engineered protein-based hydrogels have emerged as a promising candidate for …