Hydrogel wound dressings for diabetic foot ulcer treatment: status‐quo, challenges, and future perspectives

A Ko, C Liao - BMEMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are a common and often debilitating complication of diabetes that
can result in lower limb amputations if left untreated. Hydrogel dressings are three …

Building micro-capsules using water-in-water emulsion droplets as templates

A Perro, N Coudon, JP Chapel, N Martin… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of templates in materials chemistry is a well-established approach for producing
membrane-bounded hollow spheres used for microencapsulation applications, but also in …

Sequence-based engineering of dynamic functions of micrometer-sized DNA droplets

Y Sato, T Sakamoto, M Takinoue - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
DNA has the potential to achieve a controllable macromolecular structure, such as
hydrogels or droplets formed through liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), as the design of …

Janus droplet formation via thermally induced phase separation: a numerical model with diffusion and convection

H Zhang, F Wang, B Nestler - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microscale Janus particles have versatile potential applications in many physical and
biomedical fields, such as microsensor, micromotor, and drug delivery. Here, we present a …

Exploring the potential of all-aqueous immiscible systems for preparing complex biomaterials and cellular constructs

RC Gonçalves, MB Oliveira, JF Mano - Materials Horizons, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
All-aqueous immiscible systems derived from liquid–liquid phase separation of incompatible
hydrophilic agents such as polymers and salts have found increasing interest in the …

Microenvironments created by liquid-liquid phase transition control the dynamic distribution of bacterial division FtsZ protein

B Monterroso, S Zorrilla, M Sobrinos-Sanguino… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The influence of membrane-free microcompartments resulting from crowding-induced
liquid/liquid phase separation (LLPS) on the dynamic spatial organization of FtsZ, the main …

Multi-step processing of single cells using semi-permeable capsules

G Leonaviciene, K Leonavicius, R Meskys, L Mazutis - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics technology provides a powerful approach to isolate and process
millions of single cells simultaneously. Despite many exciting applications that have …

Cell-size space effects on phase separation of binary polymer blends

M Yanagisawa - Biophysical Reviews, 2022 - Springer
Within living cells, a diverse array of biomolecules is present at high concentrations. To
better understand how molecular behavior differs under such conditions (collectively …

Cell-sized confinement controls generation and stability of a protein wave for spatiotemporal regulation in cells

S Kohyama, N Yoshinaga, M Yanagisawa, K Fujiwara… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The Min system, a system that determines the bacterial cell division plane, uses changes in
the localization of proteins (a Min wave) that emerges by reaction-diffusion coupling …

Microcapsules with a permeable hydrogel shell and an aqueous core continuously produced in a 3D microdevice by all-aqueous microfluidics

S Mytnyk, I Ziemecka, AGL Olive, JWM van der Meer… - RSC …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the continuous production of microcapsules composed of an aqueous core and
permeable hydrogel shell, made stable by the controlled photo-cross-linking of the shell of …