Articular cartilage serves as a low-friction, load-bearing tissue without the support with blood
vessels, lymphatics and nerves, making its repair a big challenge. Transforming growth …

Additive manufacturing (AM), also referred to as rapid prototyping, solid free-form fabrication,
or simply threedimensional (3D) printing, comprises a number of technologies that allow the …

Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are stimulus-responsive biopolymers derived from human
elastin. Their unique properties—including lower critical solution temperature phase …

Hydrogels are a class of advanced material forms that closely mimic properties of the soft
biological tissues. Several polymers have been explored for preparing hydrogels with …

With the rapid progress of biomedical technology, hydrogels that can be prepared under bio-
friendly conditions are urgently needed. In situ gelling systems have been extensively …

Aqueous solutions that undergo sol-to-gel transition as the temperature increases have
been extensively studied during the last decade. The material can be designed by …

Hybrid biomaterials are systems created from components of at least two distinct classes of
molecules, for example, synthetic macromolecules and proteins or peptide domains. The …

Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) have found utility in tissue engineering applications, not
only because they are biocompatible, biodegradable, and non-immunogenic, but also …

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent progenitor cells whose plasticity and self-
renewal capacity have generated significant interest for applications in tissue engineering …

Peptides are emerging as a new class of biomaterials due to their unique chemical,
physical, and biological properties. The development of peptide-based biomaterials is …