Self-healing injectable hydrogels for tissue regeneration

P Bertsch, M Diba, DJ Mooney… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Biomaterials with the ability to self-heal and recover their structural integrity offer many
advantages for applications in biomedicine. The past decade has witnessed the rapid …

Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Wound microenvironment self-adaptive hydrogel with efficient angiogenesis for promoting diabetic wound healing

Z Shao, T Yin, J Jiang, Y He, T Xiang, S Zhou - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Neovascularization is critical to improve the diabetic microenvironment, deliver abundant
nutrients to the wound and promote wound closure. However, the excess of oxidative stress …

Dynamic and reconfigurable materials from reversible network interactions

MJ Webber, MW Tibbitt - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Polymer materials provide solutions to some of the most pressing environmental,
manufacturing and health-care challenges. Traditional thermoplastic and thermoset …

Robust self-healing graphene oxide-based superhydrophobic coatings for efficient corrosion protection of magnesium alloys

B Li, S Xue, P Mu, J Li - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022 - ACS Publications
A self-healing coating possesses a broad application prospect in the metal corrosion
protection area due to its pleasurable performance. By far, despite a great deal of research …

Biomimetic peptide self-assembly for functional materials

A Levin, TA Hakala, L Schnaider… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Natural biomolecular systems have evolved to form a rich variety of supramolecular
materials and machinery fundamental to cellular function. The assembly of these structures …

Recent progress in self-healing polymers and hydrogels based on reversible dynamic B–O bonds: boronic/boronate esters, borax, and benzoxaborole

S Cho, SY Hwang, DX Oh, J Park - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Intrinsic self-healing polymeric materials are substances that relieve external stress and
restore their original mechanical properties after extreme damage via dynamic covalent …

Hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering: the importance of polymer choice

CD Spicer - Polymer Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogel scaffolds that can repair or regrow damaged biological tissue have great potential
for the treatment of injury and disease. These biomaterials are widely used in the tissue …

Toward stimuli‐responsive dynamic thermosets through continuous development and improvements in covalent adaptable networks (CANs)

M Podgórski, BD Fairbanks, BE Kirkpatrick… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Covalent adaptable networks (CANs), unlike typical thermosets or other covalently
crosslinked networks, possess a unique, often dormant ability to activate one or more forms …

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 …