Biomedical polymers: synthesis, properties, and applications

WH Chen, QW Chen, Q Chen, C Cui, S Duan… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of
biomedical fields, such as therapeutic medicine delivery, disease detection and diagnosis …

Innovation in layer-by-layer assembly

JJ Richardson, J Cui, M Bjornmalm… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Methods for depositing thin films are important in generating functional materials for diverse
applications in a wide variety of fields. Over the last half-century, the layer-by-layer assembly …

Chitosan-based biomaterials: insights into chemistry, properties, devices, and their biomedical applications

S Petroni, I Tagliaro, C Antonini, M D'Arienzo, SF Orsini… - Marine drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a marine-origin polysaccharide obtained from the deacetylation of chitin, the
main component of crustaceans' exoskeleton, and the second most abundant in nature …

Biomineralization: from material tactics to biological strategy

S Yao, B Jin, Z Liu, C Shao, R Zhao, X Wang… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Biomineralization is an important tactic by which biological organisms produce hierarchically
structured minerals with marvellous functions. Biomineralization studies typically focus on …

Advanced bottom‐up engineering of living architectures

VM Gaspar, P Lavrador, J Borges… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bottom‐up tissue engineering is a promising approach for designing modular biomimetic
structures that aim to recapitulate the intricate hierarchy and biofunctionality of native human …

Elastin-like polypeptides in drug delivery

JC Rodríguez-Cabello, FJ Arias, MA Rodrigo… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of recombinant elastin-like materials, or elastin-like recombinamers (ELRs), in drug-
delivery applications is reviewed in this work. Although ELRs were initially used in similar …

Polymer-and hybrid-based biomaterials for interstitial, connective, vascular, nerve, visceral and musculoskeletal tissue engineering

A Abalymov, B Parakhonskiy, AG Skirtach - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this review, materials based on polymers and hybrids possessing both organic and
inorganic contents for repairing or facilitating cell growth in tissue engineering are …

Biomaterials for sequestration of growth factors and modulation of cell behavior

SPB Teixeira, RMA Domingues… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Growth factors (GFs) are proteins secreted by cells that regulate a variety of biological
processes. Although they have long been proposed as potent therapeutic agents, their …

Engineering nanolayered particles for modular drug delivery

S Correa, EC Dreaden, L Gu, PT Hammond - Journal of Controlled Release, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Layer-by-layer (LbL) based self-assembly of nanoparticles is an emerging and
powerful method to develop multifunctional and tissue responsive nanomedicines for a …

Antibacterial and angiogenic wound dressings for chronic persistent skin injury

Z Wang, W Hu, W You, G Huang, W Tian… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibacterial and angiogenic wound dressings are highly desirable for chronic persistent
skin injuries complicated by bacterial infection or diabetes. Herein, a series of quaternized …