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 …

Designing bioresponsive nanomaterials for intracellular self-assembly

S Chagri, DYW Ng, T Weil - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Supramolecular assemblies are essential components of living organisms. Cellular
scaffolds, such as the cytoskeleton or the cell membrane, are formed via secondary …

Self‐assembling peptide‐based hydrogels for wound tissue repair

T Guan, J Li, C Chen, Y Liu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wound healing is a long‐term, multistage biological process that includes hemostasis,
inflammation, proliferation, and tissue remodeling and requires intelligent designs to provide …

Small‐molecule prodrug nanoassemblies: an emerging nanoplatform for anticancer drug delivery

G Li, B Sun, Y Li, C Luo, Z He, J Sun - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The antitumor efficiency and clinical translation of traditional nanomedicines is mainly
restricted by low drug loading, complex preparation technology, and potential toxicity …

Drug delivery by supramolecular design

MJ Webber, R Langer - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The rational design of drug delivery approaches leveraging supramolecular chemistry
(ie,“chemistry beyond the molecule”) has garnered significant interest in recent years toward …

Recent advances of self-assembling peptide-based hydrogels for biomedical applications

J Li, R Xing, S Bai, X Yan - Soft matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide-based hydrogels have been proven to be preeminent biomedical materials due to
their high water content, tunable mechanical stability, great biocompatibility and excellent …

Supramolecular hydrogelators and hydrogels: from soft matter to molecular biomaterials

X Du, J Zhou, J Shi, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this review we intend to provide a relatively comprehensive summary of the work of
supramolecular hydrogelators after 2004 and to put emphasis particularly on the …

Enzymatic noncovalent synthesis

H He, W Tan, J Guo, M Yi, AN Shy, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Enzymatic reactions and noncovalent (ie, supramolecular) interactions are two fundamental
nongenetic attributes of life. Enzymatic noncovalent synthesis (ENS) refers to a process …

Manufacturing of hydrogel biomaterials with controlled mechanical properties for tissue engineering applications

A Vedadghavami, F Minooei, MH Mohammadi… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogels have been recognized as crucial biomaterials in the field of tissue engineering,
regenerative medicine, and drug delivery applications due to their specific characteristics …

Peptide-based supramolecular hydrogels for local drug delivery

Z Zhang, S Ai, Z Yang, X Li - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Peptide-based supramolecular hydrogels have shown great promise as drug delivery
systems (DDSs) because of their excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability, biological …