Supramolecular hydrogelators and hydrogels: from soft matter to molecular biomaterials

X Du, J Zhou, J Shi, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this review we intend to provide a relatively comprehensive summary of the work of
supramolecular hydrogelators after 2004 and to put emphasis particularly on the …

Supramolecular biomaterials

MJ Webber, EA Appel, EW Meijer, R Langer - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
Polymers, ceramics and metals have historically dominated the application of materials in
medicine. Yet rationally designed materials that exploit specific, directional, tunable and …

Self‐healing supramolecular hydrogels for tissue engineering applications

L Saunders, PX Ma - Macromolecular bioscience, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐healing supramolecular hydrogels have emerged as a novel class of biomaterials that
combine hydrogels with supramolecular chemistry to develop highly functional biomaterials …

(Macro) molecular self-assembly for hydrogel drug delivery

MJ Webber, ET Pashuck - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrogels prepared via self-assembly offer scalable and tunable platforms for drug delivery
applications. Molecular-scale self-assembly leverages an interplay of attractive and …

Amino acids and peptide‐based supramolecular hydrogels for three‐dimensional cell culture

XQ Dou, CL Feng - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular hydrogels assembled from amino acids and peptide‐derived hydrogelators
have shown great potential as biomimetic three‐dimensional (3D) extracellular matrices …

Present and future of tissue engineering scaffolds for dentin‐pulp complex regeneration

DG Moussa, C Aparicio - Journal of tissue engineering and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
More than two thirds of the global population suffers from tooth decay, which results in
cavities with various levels of lesion severity. Clinical interventions to treat tooth decay range …

Self‐assembly in nature: using the principles of nature to create complex nanobiomaterials

AC Mendes, ET Baran, RL Reis… - Wiley interdisciplinary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly is a ubiquitous process in biology where it plays numerous important roles
and underlies the formation of a wide variety of complex biological structures. Over the past …

Supramolecular peptide nanofiber hydrogels for bone tissue engineering: from multihierarchical fabrications to comprehensive applications

Z Hao, H Li, Y Wang, Y Hu, T Chen, S Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bone tissue engineering is becoming an ideal strategy to replace autologous bone grafts for
surgical bone repair, but the multihierarchical complexity of natural bone is still difficult to …

Injectable scaffolds: Preparation and application in dental and craniofacial regeneration

B Chang, N Ahuja, C Ma, X Liu - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2017 - Elsevier
Injectable scaffolds are appealing for tissue regeneration because they offer many
advantages over pre-formed scaffolds. This article provides a comprehensive review of the …

Chiral self-assembly of peptides: Toward the design of supramolecular polymers with enhanced chemical and biological functions

Y Shen, Y Wang, IW Hamley, W Qi, R Su… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chirality is one of the most important structural features in biological systems. Peptides, as a
class of small biomolecules, can self-assemble into various chiral supramolecular polymers …