Overview of natural hydrogels for regenerative medicine applications

MC Catoira, L Fusaro, D Di Francesco… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - Springer
Hydrogels from different materials can be used in biomedical field as an innovative
approach in regenerative medicine. Depending on the origin source, hydrogels can be …

Textile technologies and tissue engineering: a path toward organ weaving

M Akbari, A Tamayol, S Bagherifard… - Advanced …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Textile technologies have recently attracted great attention as potential biofabrication tools
for engineering tissue constructs. Using current textile technologies, fibrous structures can …

Silk‐based biomaterials in biomedical textiles and fiber‐based implants

G Li, Y Li, G Chen, J He, Y Han… - Advanced healthcare …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Biomedical textiles and fiber‐based implants (BTFIs) have been in routine clinical use to
facilitate healing for nearly five decades. Amongst the variety of biomaterials used, silk …

Super-paramagnetic responsive silk fibroin/chitosan/magnetite scaffolds with tunable pore structures for bone tissue engineering applications

S Aliramaji, A Zamanian, M Mozafari - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tissue engineering is a promising approach in repairing damaged tissues. During the last
few years, magnetic nanoparticles have been of great interest in this field of study due to …

Nerve guidance conduits with hierarchical anisotropic architecture for peripheral nerve regeneration

Q Lu, F Zhang, W Cheng, X Gao, Z Ding… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nerve guidance conduits with multifunctional features could offer microenvironments for
improved nerve regeneration and functional recovery. However, the challenge remains to …

Application of textile technology in tissue engineering: A review

C Jiang, K Wang, Y Liu, C Zhang, B Wang - Acta Biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the key elements in tissue engineering is to design and fabricate scaffolds with tissue-
like properties. Among various scaffold fabrication methods, textile technology has shown its …

Silk‐Fabric Reinforced Silk for Artificial Bones

L Lu, X Liu, Y Sun, S Wang, J Liu, S Ge… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bone implants for different body parts require varying mechanical properties, dimensions,
and biodegradability rates. Currently, it is still challenging to produce artificial bones with …

Nanoscale silk–hydroxyapatite hydrogels for injectable bone biomaterials

Z Ding, H Han, Z Fan, H Lu, Y Sang, Y Yao… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Injectable hydrogel systems are important bone substitutes for regeneration because of their
handling properties and the ability to fill irregular defects. Silk–hydroxyapatite composite …

Bombyx mori Silk Fibers: An Outstanding Family of Materials

RFP Pereira, MM Silva… - Macromolecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Designing novel multifunctional materials from natural resources is a challenging goal that
has increasingly attracted researchers. Recently, the great potential of silk fibers has been …

Fiber-reinforced scaffolds in soft tissue engineering

B Pei, W Wang, Y Fan, X Wang… - Regenerative …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Soft tissue engineering has been developed as a new strategy for repairing damaged or
diseased soft tissues and organs to overcome the limitations of current therapies. Since most …