Translational applications of hydrogels

S Correa, AK Grosskopf, H Lopez Hernandez… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Advances in hydrogel technology have unlocked unique and valuable capabilities that are
being applied to a diverse set of translational applications. Hydrogels perform functions …

Chemically modified biopolymers for the formation of biomedical hydrogels

VG Muir, JA Burdick - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biopolymers are natural polymers sourced from plants and animals, which include a variety
of polysaccharides and polypeptides. The inclusion of biopolymers into biomedical …

Hydrogel microparticles for biomedical applications

AC Daly, L Riley, T Segura, JA Burdick - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Hydrogel microparticles (HMPs) are promising for biomedical applications, ranging from the
therapeutic delivery of cells and drugs to the production of scaffolds for tissue repair and …

Activating an adaptive immune response from a hydrogel scaffold imparts regenerative wound healing

DR Griffin, MM Archang, CH Kuan, WM Weaver… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Microporous annealed particle (MAP) scaffolds are flowable, in situ crosslinked,
microporous scaffolds composed of microgel building blocks and were previously shown to …

Engineered materials for organoid systems

MJ Kratochvil, AJ Seymour, TL Li, SP Paşca… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Organoids are 3D cell culture systems that mimic some of the structural and functional
characteristics of an organ. Organoid cultures provide the opportunity to study organ-level …

Design challenges in polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering

MI Echeverria Molina, KG Malollari… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Numerous surgical procedures are daily performed worldwide to replace and repair
damaged tissue. Tissue engineering is the field devoted to the regeneration of damaged …

Recent advances in shear‐thinning and self‐healing hydrogels for biomedical applications

S Uman, A Dhand, JA Burdick - Journal of Applied Polymer …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Shear‐thinning and self‐healing hydrogels are being investigated in various biomedical
applications including drug delivery, tissue engineering, and 3D bioprinting. Such hydrogels …

[HTML][HTML] Microgel assembly: Fabrication, characteristics and application in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Q Feng, D Li, Q Li, X Cao, H Dong - Bioactive materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Microgel assembly, a macroscopic aggregate formed by bottom-up assembly of microgels, is
now emerging as prospective biomaterials for applications in tissue engineering and …

3D printing in suspension baths: keeping the promises of bioprinting afloat

A McCormack, CB Highley, NR Leslie… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Extrusion-based 3D printers have been adopted in pursuit of engineering functional tissues
through 3D bioprinting. However, we are still a long way from the promise of fabricating …

Shaping synthetic multicellular and complex multimaterial tissues via embedded extrusion‐volumetric printing of microgels

D Ribezzi, M Gueye, S Florczak, F Dusi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In living tissues, cells express their functions following complex signals from their
surrounding microenvironment. Capturing both hierarchical architectures at the micro‐and …