Engineered living biomaterials

A Rodrigo-Navarro, S Sankaran, MJ Dalby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomaterials have evolved from inert materials that lack interaction with the body to
biologically active, instructive materials that host and provide signals to surrounding cells …

Nanocellulose: recent fundamental advances and emerging biological and biomimicking applications

K Heise, E Kontturi, Y Allahverdiyeva… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the effort toward sustainable advanced functional materials, nanocelluloses have
attracted extensive recent attention. Nanocelluloses range from rod‐like highly crystalline …

Electrospinning research and products: The road and the way forward

AM Al-Dhahebi, JK Ling, SG Krishnan… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Electrospinning is one of the most accessed nanofabrication techniques during the last three
decades, attributed to its viability for the mass production of continuous nanofibers with …

A comprehensive review on preparation, functionalization and recent applications of nanofiber membranes in wastewater treatment

EI El-Aswar, H Ramadan, H Elkik, AG Taha - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The direct discharge of significant amounts of polluted water into water bodies causes
adverse ecological and human health effects. This severe deterioration in water quality …

Progress in the design and development of “fast-dissolving” electrospun nanofibers based drug delivery systems-A systematic review

B Balusamy, A Celebioglu, A Senthamizhan… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrospinning has emerged as most viable approach for the fabrication of nanofibers with
several beneficial features that are essential to various applications ranging from …

Engineered living materials for advanced diseases therapy

X Dong, W Wu, P Pan, XZ Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Natural living materials serving as biotherapeutics exhibit great potential for treating various
diseases owing to their immunoactivity, tissue targeting, and other biological activities. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the antimicrobial features of biomaterials for biomedical applications

S Sam, B Joseph, S Thomas - Results in Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Biomaterials have revolutionized therapeutic as well as preventive healthcare. This has
given impetus to the development of implants, drug delivery systems, and tissue engineering …

Electrospun fibers based on botanical, seaweed, microbial, and animal sourced biomacromolecules and their multidimensional applications

KPA Kumar, EN Zare, R Torres-Mendieta… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This review summarizes and broadly classifies all of the major sustainable natural
carbohydrate bio-macromolecular manifestations in nature–from botanical (cellulose, starch …

Recent advances in seed coating treatment using nanoparticles and nanofibers for enhanced seed germination and protection

NSHBH Zaim, HL Tan, SMA Rahman… - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2023 - Springer
Seed coating plays a crucial role in agriculture technology as a defence mechanism for crop
protection and development. Conventional seed coating methods typically involve excessive …

Design of nanoengineered antibacterial polymers for biomedical applications

Q Borjihan, A Dong - Biomaterials science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Pathogenic bacteria have become global threats to public health. Since the advent of
antibiotics about 100 years ago, their use has been embraced with great enthusiasm …