Soft bioelectronics based on nanomaterials

KW Cho, SH Sunwoo, YJ Hong, JH Koo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in nanostructured materials and unconventional device designs have
transformed the bioelectronics from a rigid and bulky form into a soft and ultrathin form and …

Extracellular matrix mechanobiology in cancer cell migration

J Vasudevan, K Jiang, JG Fernandez, CT Lim - Acta biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is pivotal in modulating tumor progression. Besides
chemically stimulating tumor cells, it also offers physical support that orchestrates the …

Bubble casting soft robotics

TJ Jones, E Jambon-Puillet, J Marthelot, PT Brun - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Inspired by living organisms, soft robots are developed from intrinsically compliant materials,
enabling continuous motions that mimic animal and vegetal movement. In soft robots, the …

Curved nanofiber network induces cellular bridge formation to promote stem cell mechanotransduction

Q Sun, F Pei, M Zhang, B Zhang, Y Jin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Remarkable exertions are directed to reveal and understand topographic cues that induce
cell mechanical sensitive responses including lineage determination. Extracellular matrix …

Injectable remote magnetic nanofiber/hydrogel multiscale scaffold for functional anisotropic skeletal muscle regeneration

L Wang, T Li, Z Wang, J Hou, S Liu, Q Yang, L Yu… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing an injectable anisotropic scaffold with precisely topographic cues to induce 3D
cellular organization plays a critical role in volumetric muscle loss (VML) repair in vivo …

Drying of bio-colloidal sessile droplets: Advances, applications, and perspectives

A Pal, A Gope, A Sengupta - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Drying of biologically-relevant sessile droplets, including passive systems such as DNA,
proteins, plasma, and blood, as well as active microbial systems comprising bacterial and …

Drying drops of colloidal dispersions

SP Thampi, MG Basavaraj - Annual Review of Chemical and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Drying drops of colloidal dispersions have attracted attention from researchers since the
nineteenth century. The multiscale nature of the problem involving physics at different …

Tunable mesoscopic collagen island architectures modulate stem cell behavior

RY Nguyen, AT Cabral, A Rossello‐Martinez… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The extracellular matrix is the biophysical environment that scaffolds mammalian cells in the
body. The main constituent is collagen. In physiological tissues, collagen network topology …

Microengineering 3D Collagen Matrices with Tumor‐Mimetic Gradients in Fiber Alignment

IM Joshi, M Mansouri, A Ahmed… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Collagen fibers in the 3D tumor microenvironment (TME) exhibit complex alignment
landscapes that are critical in directing cell migration through a process called contact …

Ultralight NiCo@ rGO aerogel microspheres with magnetic response for oil/water separation

Y Cheng, Y Cai, Z Wang, X Lu, H Xia - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Improving the adsorption capacity of the adsorbent and realizing rapid separation are quite
important for water treatment. Herein, one kind of novel Ni/Co-contained reduced graphene …