Bioplastics for a circular economy

JG Rosenboom, R Langer, G Traverso - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Bioplastics—typically plastics manufactured from bio-based polymers—stand to contribute to
more sustainable commercial plastic life cycles as part of a circular economy, in which virgin …

PLGA-based nanomedicine: history of advancement and development in clinical applications of multiple diseases

HO Alsaab, FD Alharbi, AS Alhibs, NB Alanazi… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Research on the use of biodegradable polymers for drug delivery has been ongoing since
they were first used as bioresorbable surgical devices in the 1980s. For tissue engineering …

PLGA/PLA-based long-acting injectable depot microspheres in clinical use: production and characterization overview for protein/peptide delivery

A Butreddy, RP Gaddam, N Kommineni… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, long acting injectable (LAI) depots of polylactide-co-glycolide
(PLGA) or polylactic acid (PLA) based microspheres have been developed for controlled …

The impact of relative humidity on electrospun polymer fibers: From structural changes to fiber morphology

PK Szewczyk, U Stachewicz - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is one of the most important methods used for the production of
nanostructured materials. Electrospun nanofibers are used in a wide spectrum of …

Advances in barrier membranes for guided bone regeneration techniques

Z Yang, C Wu, H Shi, X Luo, H Sun, Q Wang… - … in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Guided bone regeneration (GBR) is a widely used technique for alveolar bone
augmentation. Among all the principal elements, barrier membrane is recognized as the key …

Applications of nanomaterials in tissue engineering

X Zheng, P Zhang, Z Fu, S Meng, L Dai, H Yang - RSC advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advancement in nanotechnology has brought prominent benefits in tissue
engineering, which has been used to repair or reconstruct damaged tissues or organs and …

Ocular drug delivery: Role of degradable polymeric nanocarriers for ophthalmic application

CH Tsai, PY Wang, IC Lin, H Huang, GS Liu… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Ocular drug delivery has been a major challenge for clinical pharmacologists and
biomaterial scientists due to intricate and unique anatomical and physiological barriers in …

The design of poly (lactide-co-glycolide) nanocarriers for medical applications

D Essa, PPD Kondiah, YE Choonara… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Polymeric biomaterials have found widespread applications in nanomedicine, and poly
(lactide-co-glycolide),(PLGA) in particular has been successfully implemented in numerous …

Conventional and recent trends of scaffolds fabrication: a superior mode for tissue engineering

IM Adel, MF ElMeligy, NA Elkasabgy - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tissue regeneration is an auto-healing mechanism, initiating immediately following tissue
damage to restore normal tissue structure and function. This falls in line with survival instinct …

Polymer-coated magnetite nanoparticles for protein immobilization

K Mylkie, P Nowak, P Rybczynski, M Ziegler-Borowska - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Since their discovery, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have become materials with great
potential, especially considering the applications of biomedical sciences. A series of works …