Designing hydrogels for controlled drug delivery

J Li, DJ Mooney - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Hydrogel delivery systems can leverage therapeutically beneficial outcomes of drug delivery
and have found clinical use. Hydrogels can provide spatial and temporal control over the …

Mechanics of 3D cell–hydrogel interactions: experiments, models, and mechanisms

FJ Vernerey, S Lalitha Sridhar, A Muralidharan… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are highly water-swollen molecular networks that are ideal platforms to create
tissue mimetics owing to their vast and tunable properties. As such, hydrogels are promising …

Thermo-responsive hydrogels: from recent progress to biomedical applications

K Zhang, K Xue, XJ Loh - Gels, 2021 - mdpi.com
Thermogels are also known as thermo-sensitive or thermo-responsive hydrogels and can
undergo a sol–gel transition as the temperature increases. This thermogelling behavior is …

Natural polymers-based light-induced hydrogels: Promising biomaterials for biomedical applications

H Samadian, H Maleki, Z Allahyari… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2020 - Elsevier
There has been a significant increase in demand for biomaterials over the last decades.
According to this fact, the design and development of more efficient and sophisticated …

Hydrogels for therapeutic delivery: current developments and future directions

SJ Buwalda, T Vermonden, WE Hennink - Biomacromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are attractive materials for the controlled release of therapeutics because of their
capacity to embed biologically active agents in their water-swollen network. Recent …

Water-soluble photoinitiators in biomedical applications

W Tomal, J Ortyl - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Light-initiated polymerization processes are currently an important tool in various industrial
fields. The advancement of technology has resulted in the use of photopolymerization in …

Hydrogels in a historical perspective: From simple networks to smart materials

SJ Buwalda, KWM Boere, PJ Dijkstra, J Feijen… - Journal of controlled …, 2014 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, significant progress has been made in the field of hydrogels as
functional biomaterials. Biomedical application of hydrogels was initially hindered by the …

Thermoresponsive hydrogels in biomedical applications: A seven-year update

L Klouda - European Journal of Pharmaceutics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermally responsive hydrogels modulate their gelation behavior upon temperature change.
Aqueous solutions solidify into hydrogels when a critical temperature is reached. In …

25th anniversary article: Rational design and applications of hydrogels in regenerative medicine

N Annabi, A Tamayol, JA Uquillas, M Akbari… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymer‐based materials with high water content and physical
characteristics that resemble the native extracellular matrix. Because of their remarkable …

Design of 3D printed scaffolds for bone tissue engineering: A review

S Kanwar, S Vijayavenkataraman - Bioprinting, 2021 - Elsevier
Every year, millions of people around the world undergo bone graft and artificial prosthesis
transplants which engenders the repair and/or replacement of native bone for treating bone …