Designing hydrogels for controlled drug delivery

J Li, DJ Mooney - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Hydrogel delivery systems can leverage therapeutically beneficial outcomes of drug delivery
and have found clinical use. Hydrogels can provide spatial and temporal control over the …

The evolution of wound dressings: From traditional to smart dressings

E Rezvani Ghomi, M Niazi… - Polymers for Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wound healing has always been a great challenge throughout human history. Today, with a
substantial rise in chronic diseases and surgical operations, there is more demand for …

Alginate-chitosan oligosaccharide-ZnO composite hydrogel for accelerating wound healing

M Zhang, X Qiao, W Han, T Jiang, F Liu, X Zhao - Carbohydrate polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Moist, breathable and antibacterial microenvironment can promote cell proliferation and
migration, which is beneficial to wound healing. Here, we fabricated a novel sodium alginate …

Biopolymer-based biomaterials for accelerated diabetic wound healing: A critical review

SA Shah, M Sohail, S Khan, MU Minhas… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Non-healing, chronic wounds place a huge burden on healthcare systems as well as
individual patients. These chronic wounds especially diabetic wounds will ultimately lead to …

Polymeric wound dressings, an insight into polysaccharide-based electrospun membranes

M Gruppuso, G Turco, E Marsich, D Porrelli - Applied Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Chronic wounds deeply invalidate patient's quality of life, involving very high costs for the
medical system. Numerous wound dressings have been studied over the years, and active …

A sodium alginate-based sustained-release IPN hydrogel and its applications

Z Zou, B Zhang, X Nie, Y Cheng, Z Hu, M Liao, S Li - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) hydrogels are crosslinked by two or more polymer
networks, providing free volume space in the three-dimensional network structure, and …

Optimization, characterization, and in vitro assessment of alginate-pectin ionic cross-linked hydrogel film for wound dressing applications

M Rezvanian, N Ahmad, MCIM Amin, SF Ng - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Natural polymer-based hydrogel films have great potential for biomedical applications and
are good candidates for wound dressings. In this study, we aimed to develop simvastatin …

Electrospun nanocomposites containing cellulose and its derivatives modified with specialized biomolecules for an enhanced wound healing

MA Teixeira, MC Paiva, MTP Amorim, HP Felgueiras - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wound healing requires careful, directed, and effective therapies to prevent infections and
accelerate tissue regeneration. In light of these demands, active biomolecules with …

Chitosan/alginate/hyaluronic acid polyelectrolyte composite sponges crosslinked with genipin for wound dressing application

X Meng, Y Lu, Y Gao, S Cheng, F Tian, Y Xiao… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wound dressing composed of polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs), based on
chitosan/alginate/hyaluronic acid (CS/ALG/HYA) crosslinked by genipin, was prepared by …

Functional role of crosslinking in alginate scaffold for drug delivery and tissue engineering: A review

L Aguero, S Alpdagtas, E Ilhan, D Zaldivar-Silva… - European Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
The actual tendency exhibits continuous increment to use alginate polysaccharides in drug
delivery and tissue engineering fields due to its attractive properties. Alginate pH …