[HTML][HTML] Organs-on-chips technologies–A guide from disease models to opportunities for drug development

AG Monteduro, S Rizzato, G Caragnano… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Current in-vitro 2D cultures and animal models present severe limitations in recapitulating
human physiopathology with striking discrepancies in estimating drug efficacy and side …

Advances in precursor system for silica-based aerogel production toward improved mechanical properties, customized morphology, and multifunctionality: A review

S Karamikamkar, HE Naguib, CB Park - Advances in colloid and interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional silica-based aerogels are among the most promising materials considering
their special properties, such as extremely low thermal conductivity (~ 15 mW/mK) and low …

[HTML][HTML] Natural and synthetic biomaterials for engineering multicellular tumor spheroids

A Kamatar, G Gunay, H Acar - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The lack of in vitro models that represent the native tumor microenvironment is a significant
challenge for cancer research. Two-dimensional (2D) monolayer culture has long been the …

[HTML][HTML] Natural polymer-based hydrogels: From polymer to biomedical applications

L Zhao, Y Zhou, J Zhang, H Liang, X Chen, H Tan - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hydrogels prepared from natural polymer have attracted extensive attention in biomedical
fields such as drug delivery, wound healing, and regenerative medicine due to their good …

[HTML][HTML] A practical guide to microfabrication and patterning of hydrogels for biomimetic cell culture scaffolds

M Tenje, F Cantoni, AMP Hernández, SS Searle… - Organs-on-a-Chip, 2020 - Elsevier
This review article describes microfabrication techniques to define chemical, mechanical
and structural patterns in hydrogels and how these can be used to prepare in vivo like, ie …

Droplet microfluidics for tumor drug‐related studies and programmable artificial cells

P Dimitriou, J Li, G Tornillo, T McCloy… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Anticancer drug development is a crucial step toward cancer treatment, that requires realistic
predictions of malignant tissue development and sophisticated drug delivery. Tumors often …

Morphological, interfacial and rheological properties in multilayer polymers: A review

F Gholami, L Pakzad, E Behzadfar - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
The global market of multilayer polymer (MLP) films accounted for $5.50 billion in 2017 and
is expected to reach $9.58 billion by 2026. In this paper, a comprehensive review on …

Insights into in-situ sol-gel conversion in graphene modified polymer-based silica gels for multifunctional aerogels

S Karamikamkar, E Behzadfar, HE Naguib… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Graphene-modified polymer-based silica aerogels (G-PSAs) are an emerging class of
multifunctional material, receiving a lot of attention for a wide range of applications such as …

[HTML][HTML] The fabrication and application mechanism of microfluidic systems for high throughput biomedical screening: A review

K Song, G Li, X Zu, Z Du, L Liu, Z Hu - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic systems have been widely explored based on microfluidic technology, and it has
been widely used for biomedical screening. The key parts are the fabrication of the base …

[HTML][HTML] Bactericidal activity of 3D-printed hydrogel dressing loaded with gallium maltolate

S Cereceres, Z Lan, L Bryan, M Whitely, T Wilems… - APL …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Chronic wounds are projected to reach epidemic proportions worldwide because of the
aging population and the increasing incidence of diabetes. Despite extensive research …