The biological applications of DNA nanomaterials: current challenges and future directions

W Ma, Y Zhan, Y Zhang, C Mao, X Xie… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA, a genetic material, has been employed in different scientific directions for various
biological applications as driven by DNA nanotechnology in the past decades, including …

Molecularly stimuli-responsive self-assembled peptide nanoparticles for targeted imaging and therapy

Y Zhou, Q Li, Y Wu, X Li, Y Zhou, Z Wang, H Liang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly has emerged as an extensively used method for constructing biomaterials
with sizes ranging from nanometers to micrometers. Peptides have been extensively …

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 …

Designing smart biomaterials for tissue engineering

F Khan, M Tanaka - International journal of molecular sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The engineering of human tissues to cure diseases is an interdisciplinary and a very
attractive field of research both in academia and the biotechnology industrial sector. Three …

[HTML][HTML] Self-assemble peptide biomaterials and their biomedical applications

J Chen, X Zou - Bioactive materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Inspired by self-assembling peptides found in native proteins, deliberately designed
engineered peptides have shown outstanding biocompatibility, biodegradability, and …

Self-assembling hydrogel structures for neural tissue repair

S Peressotti, GE Koehl, JA Goding… - … Biomaterials Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogel materials have been employed as biological scaffolds for tissue regeneration
across a wide range of applications. Their versatility and biomimetic properties make them …

A novel electroactive agarose-aniline pentamer platform as a potential candidate for neural tissue engineering

P Zarrintaj, B Bakhshandeh, I Rezaeian… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Neuronal disorder is an important health challenge due to inadequate natural regeneration,
which has been responded by tissue engineering, particularly with conductive materials. A …

3D printing collagen/chitosan scaffold ameliorated axon regeneration and neurological recovery after spinal cord injury

Y Sun, C Yang, X Zhu, JJ Wang, XY Liu… - … Research Part A, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a disaster that can cause severe motor, sensory, and functional
disorders. Implanting biomaterials have been regarded as hopeful strategies to restore …

Biomaterials via peptide assembly: Design, characterization, and application in tissue engineering

VP Gray, CD Amelung, IJ Duti, EG Laudermilch… - Acta biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
A core challenge in biomaterials, with both fundamental significance and technological
relevance, concerns the rational design of bioactive microenvironments. Designed properly …

Injectable, self-healing and pH responsive stem cell factor loaded collagen hydrogel as a dynamic bioadhesive dressing for diabetic wound repair

L Zhang, Y Zhou, D Su, S Wu, J Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As one of the serious complications of diabetes, diabetic ulcers induce several clinical
problems. Although a variety of wound dressings are commonly employed, their role is too …