Silk fibroin has applications in different medical fields such as tissue engineering,
regenerative medicine, drug delivery and medical devices. Advances in silk chemistry and …

Matrigel, a basement-membrane matrix extracted from Engelbreth–Holm–Swarm mouse
sarcomas, has been used for more than four decades for a myriad of cell-culture …

Click chemistry is one of the most powerful strategies for constructing polymeric soft
materials with precise control over architecture and functionality. In this review, we provide a …

Hydrogels are the most relevant biochemical scaffold due to their tunable properties,
inherent biocompatibility, and similarity with tissue and cell environments. Over the past …

Hydrogels with tailor‐made swelling‐shrinkable properties have aroused considerable
interest in numerous biomedical domains. For example, as swelling is a key issue for blood …

Swelling is ubiquitous for traditional as-prepared hydrogels, but is unfavorable in many
situations, especially biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering, internal wound …

Absorbent polymers or hydrogel polymer materials have an enhanced water retention
capacity and are widely used in agriculture and medicine. The controlled release of …

Standard cancer therapies sometimes fail to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to tumor cells
in a safe and effective manner. Nanotechnology takes the lead in providing new therapeutic …

Wound treatment has increased in importance in the wound care sector due to the
pervasiveness of chronic wounds in the high-risk population including, but not limited to …

Sulfur and its functional groups are major players in an area of exciting research taking
place in modern polymer and materials science, both in academia and industry. In fact …