[HTML][HTML] Smart/stimuli-responsive hydrogels: Cutting-edge platforms for tissue engineering and other biomedical applications

HM El-Husseiny, EA Mady, L Hamabe, A Abugomaa… - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, biomedicine and tissue regeneration have emerged as great advances that
impacted the spectrum of healthcare. This left the door open for further improvement of their …

Programmable morphing hydrogels for soft actuators and robots: from structure designs to active functions

D Jiao, QL Zhu, CY Li, Q Zheng… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Nature provides abundant inspiration and elegant paradigms for the
development of smart materials that can actuate, morph, and move on demand. One …

Recapitulating macro-scale tissue self-organization through organoid bioprinting

JA Brassard, M Nikolaev, T Hübscher, M Hofer… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Bioprinting promises enormous control over the spatial deposition of cells in three
dimensions,,,,,–, but current approaches have had limited success at reproducing the …

Soft bioelectronics based on nanomaterials

KW Cho, SH Sunwoo, YJ Hong, JH Koo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in nanostructured materials and unconventional device designs have
transformed the bioelectronics from a rigid and bulky form into a soft and ultrathin form and …

Active materials for functional origami

S Leanza, S Wu, X Sun, HJ Qi, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Hydrogel-based 3D bioprinting: A comprehensive review on cell-laden hydrogels, bioink formulations, and future perspectives

JM Unagolla, AC Jayasuriya - Applied materials today, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydrogel plays a vital role in cell-laden three dimensional (3D) bioprinting, whereas those
hydrogels mimic the physical and biochemical characteristics of native extracellular matrix …

3D bioprinting of cell‐laden hydrogels for improved biological functionality

SM Hull, LG Brunel, SC Heilshorn - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The encapsulation of cells within gel‐phase materials to form bioinks offers distinct
advantages for next‐generation 3D bioprinting. 3D bioprinting has emerged as a promising …

Future of additive manufacturing: Overview of 4D and 3D printed smart and advanced materials and their applications

KR Ryan, MP Down, CE Banks - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 4D printing is an emerging field in additive manufacturing of time responsive
programmable materials. The combination of 3D printing technologies with materials that …

Polymers for additive manufacturing and 4D-printing: Materials, methodologies, and biomedical applications

CM González-Henríquez, MA Sarabia-Vallejos… - Progress in Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as additive manufacturing, permits the fabrication
of fully customized objects with a high level of geometrical complexity at reduced fabrication …

Mechanical metamaterials associated with stiffness, rigidity and compressibility: A brief review

X Yu, J Zhou, H Liang, Z Jiang, L Wu - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Mechanical metamaterials are man-made structures with counterintuitive mechanical
properties that originate in the geometry of their unit cell instead of the properties of each …