Intelligent and smart biomaterials for sustainable 3D printing applications

EHP de León, AU Valle-Pérez, ZN Khan… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Smart and intelligent biomaterials can be designed to carry out special tasks in modern
medicine and sustainability, and engineered to identify and respond to environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Supramolecular gels–a panorama of low-molecular-weight gelators from ancient origins to next-generation technologies

DK Smith - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular gels, self-assembled from low-molecular-weight gelators (LMWGs), have a
long history and a bright future. This review provides an overview of these materials, from …

Ultrashort peptide bioinks support automated printing of large-scale constructs assuring long-term survival of printed tissue constructs

HH Susapto, D Alhattab, S Abdelrahman, Z Khan… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report about rationally designed ultrashort peptide bioinks, overcoming severe
limitations in current bioprinting procedures. Bioprinting is increasingly relevant in tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Recently developed carbohydrate based gelators and their applications

J Morris, J Bietsch, K Bashaw, G Wang - Gels, 2021 - mdpi.com
Carbohydrate based low molecular weight gelators have been an intense subject of study
over the past decade. The self-assembling systems built from natural products have high …

Biomaterial inks and bioinks for fabricating 3D biomimetic lung tissue: A delicate balancing act between biocompatibility and mechanical printability

L Karamchand, D Makeiff, Y Gao, K Azyat, MJ Serpe… - Bioprinting, 2023 - Elsevier
Three dimensional (3D) bioprinting has rapidly emerged as a major fabrication tool in the
bioengineering of tissue constructs. 3D bioprinting enables the precise deposition of nano …

Flexible ionic-gel strain sensor with double network, high conductivity and high frost-resistance using electrohydrodynamic printing method

J Chen, T Wu, L Zhang, C Tang, H Song, F Huang… - Additive …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ionic-gel sensors have attracted wide attention in the fields of flexible electronic skin and
wearable devices. However, the weak mechanical properties of ionic gels have hindered …

In situ stimulus-responsive self-assembled nanomaterials for drug delivery and disease treatment

Z Yan, Y Liu, L Zhao, J Hu, Y Du, X Peng, Z Liu - Materials Horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The individual motifs that respond to specific stimuli for the self-assembly of nanomaterials
play important roles. In situ constructed nanomaterials are formed spontaneously without …

Recent advances in carbohydrate based gelators

R Tyagi, K Singh, N Srivastava, R Sagar - Materials Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbohydrate based gelators are the emerging new materials having diversified
applications fields like drug delivery, environmental remediation, antibacterial agents, tissue …

3D‐Printing Multi‐Component Multi‐Domain Supramolecular Gels with Differential Conductivity

TT Vadukoote, AJ Avestro, DK Smith - Angewandte Chemie, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We report the use of wet‐spinning to 3D‐print gels from low‐molecular‐weight gelators
(LMWGs) based on the 1, 3: 2, 4‐dibenzylidenesorbitol (DBS) scaffold. Gel stripes …

Structural insights into self-assembly of a slow-evolving and mechanically robust supramolecular gel via time-resolved small-angle neutron scattering

M Mirzamani, A Dawn, CJ Garvey, L He… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The supramolecular assembly process is a widespread phenomenon found in both
synthetically engineered and naturally occurring systems, such as colloids, liquid crystals …