Bacterial infection and the ever-increasing bacterial resistance have imposed severe threat
to human health. And bacterial contamination could significantly menace the wound healing …

Supramolecular binding motifs are increasingly employed in the design of biomaterials. The
ability to rationally engineer specific yet reversible associations into polymer networks with …

Electrically conducting polymers such as polyaniline, polypyrrole, polythiophene, and their
derivatives (mainly aniline oligomer and poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)) with good …

Chitosan (CS) derivatives are widely used in various biomedical applications due to their
unique properties like biocompatibility, mucoadhesion, non-toxicity and capability to form …

Chitosan is a natural biopolymer derived from deacetylation of chitin and it has been
investigated with interdisciplinary approaches for multitude applications. Chitosan …

Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) are
well-established therapeutics for gastrointestinal neoplasias, but complications after …

Shear‐thinning and self‐healing hydrogels are being investigated in various biomedical
applications including drug delivery, tissue engineering, and 3D bioprinting. Such hydrogels …

Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM)-based thermosensitive hydrogels demonstrate great
potential in biomedical applications. However, they have inherent drawbacks such as low …

Materials which adjust their properties in response to environmental factors such as
temperature, pH and ionic strength are rapidly evolving and known as smart materials …

Highlights•Polyelectrolytes are a type of polymer having multitudinous ionizable functional
groups.•Polyelectrolytes have become one of the most attractive subjects of scientific …