Materials for smart soft actuator systems

I Apsite, S Salehi, L Ionov - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

Electrospinning and electrospun nanofibers: Methods, materials, and applications

J Xue, T Wu, Y Dai, Y Xia - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Electrospinning is a versatile and viable technique for generating ultrathin fibers.
Remarkable progress has been made with regard to the development of electrospinning …

Emerging 4D printing strategies for next‐generation tissue regeneration and medical devices

Y Wang, H Cui, T Esworthy, D Mei, Y Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development of 3D printing has led to considerable progress in the field of
biomedical engineering. Notably, 4D printing provides a potential strategy to achieve a time …

Emerging polymeric electrospun fibers: From structural diversity to application in flexible bioelectronics and tissue engineering

X Wan, Y Zhao, Z Li, L Li - Exploration, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Electrospinning (e‐spin) technique has emerged as a versatile and feasible pathway for
constructing diverse polymeric fabric structures, which show potential applications in many …

Emerging 3D bioprinting applications in plastic surgery

P Yang, Y Ju, Y Hu, X Xie, B Fang, L Lei - Biomaterials research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Plastic surgery is a discipline that uses surgical methods or tissue transplantation to repair,
reconstruct and beautify the defects and deformities of human tissues and organs. Three …

A novel top‐down synthesis of ultrathin 2D boron nanosheets for multimodal imaging‐guided cancer therapy

X Ji, N Kong, J Wang, W Li, Y Xiao, ST Gan… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Single atom nonmetal 2D nanomaterials have shown considerable potential in cancer
nanomedicines, owing to their intriguing properties and biocompatibility. Herein, ultrathin …

[HTML][HTML] Four-dimensional bioprinting: Current developments and applications in bone tissue engineering

Z Wan, P Zhang, Y Liu, L Lv, Y Zhou - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Four-dimensional (4D) bioprinting, in which the concept of time is integrated with
three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting as the fourth dimension, has currently emerged as the …

Bioinks and bioprinting: A focused review

M Mobaraki, M Ghaffari, A Yazdanpanah, Y Luo… - Bioprinting, 2020 - Elsevier
Bioprinting is a process based on additive manufacturing that uses biomaterials as the
microenvironment for living cells. These materials often referred to as bioinks, are based on …

Transformer hydrogels: a review

O Erol, A Pantula, W Liu… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels, which are hydrophilic soft porous networks, are an important class of materials of
broad relevance to bioanalytical chemistry, soft‐robotics, drug delivery, and regenerative …

Conductive composite fiber with optimized alignment guides neural regeneration under electrical stimulation

J Zhang, X Zhang, C Wang, F Li, Z Qiao… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Conductivity and alignment of scaffolds are two primary factors influencing the efficacy of
nerve repair. Herein, conductive composite fibers composed of poly (ɛ‐caprolactone)(PCL) …