Multifunctional hydrogels for the healing of diabetic wounds

T Xiang, Q Guo, L Jia, T Yin, W Huang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The healing of diabetic wounds is hindered by various factors, including bacterial infection,
macrophage dysfunction, excess proinflammatory cytokines, high levels of reactive oxygen …

Stimuli‐responsive biomolecule‐based hydrogels and their applications

M Vázquez‐González, I Willner - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This Review presents polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, nucleic acids, peptides, and
proteins as functional stimuli‐responsive polymer scaffolds that yield hydrogels with …

Dual‐encryption in a shape‐memory hydrogel with tunable fluorescence and reconfigurable architecture

CN Zhu, T Bai, H Wang, J Ling, F Huang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Materials capable of shape‐morphing and/or fluorescence imaging have practical
significances in the fields of anti‐counterfeiting, information display, and information …

Tough, adhesive, self-healable, and transparent ionically conductive zwitterionic nanocomposite hydrogels as skin strain sensors

L Wang, G Gao, Y Zhou, T Xu, J Chen… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
It is desired to create skin strain sensors composed of multifunctional conductive hydrogels
with excellent toughness and adhesion properties to sustain cyclic loadings during use and …

Stimuli-responsive toughening of hydrogels

X Lin, X Wang, L Zeng, ZL Wu, H Guo… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Materials with stimuli-switchable properties are widespread in nature. Through biomimicry,
stimuli-responsive hydrogels have received increasing research in recent years. In …

Recent advances in various stimuli-responsive hydrogels: From synthetic designs to emerging healthcare applications

A Roy, K Manna, S Pal - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
With the development of broad interest in the synthesis of unique stimuli-responsive
materials and their various healthcare applications, stimuli-responsive hydrogels have …

Trends in polymeric shape memory hydrogels and hydrogel actuators

J Shang, X Le, J Zhang, T Chen, P Theato - Polymer Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently,“smart” hydrogels with either shape memory behavior or reversible actuation have
received particular attention and have been further developed into sensors, actuators, or …

Shape-memory hydrogels: evolution of structural principles to enable shape switching of hydrophilic polymer networks

C Löwenberg, M Balk, C Wischke… - Accounts of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The ability of hydrophilic chain segments in polymer networks to strongly
interact with water allows the volumetric expansion of the material and formation of a …

Engineered extracellular vesicles as intelligent nanosystems for next-generation nanomedicine

Z Fan, C Jiang, Y Wang, K Wang, J Marsh… - Nanoscale …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), as natural carriers of bioactive cargo, have a unique
micro/nanostructure, bioactive composition, and characteristic morphology, as well as …

Dynamic macromolecular material design—The versatility of cyclodextrin‐based host–guest chemistry

BVKJ Schmidt… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic and adaptive materials are powerful constructs in macromolecular and polymer
chemistry with a wide array of applications in drug delivery, bioactive systems, and self …