There has been a significant increase in demand for biomaterials over the last decades.
According to this fact, the design and development of more efficient and sophisticated …

Hydrogels are three-dimensional hydrophilic polymeric networks, capable of absorbing
large quantities of water and biological fluids and simulating biological tissue when swollen …

Hydrogels are important materials that are of high scientific interest and with numerous
applications. Natural polymer‐based hydrogels are preferred to synthetic ones due to their …

To eliminate the potential toxicity and biological incompatibility from hydrogels prepared
using synthetic polymers, researchers have paid tremendous efforts to design hydrogels …

Hydrogels are presently under investigation as matrices for the controlled release of
bioactive molecules, in particular pharmaceutical proteins, and for the encapsulation of …

The self-healing property increases the service life of materials by spontaneously repairing
the cracks or fractures. The selection of the appropriate self-healing materials having a fast …

This review extensively surveys the biomedical applications of hydrogels containing dextran.
Dextran has gained much attention as a biomaterial due to its distinctive properties such as …

The development of techniques to create and use multiphase microstructured hydrogels
(granular hydrogels or microgels) has enabled the generation of cultures with more …

Conducting polymers hold significant promise as electrode coatings; however, they are
characterized by inherently poor mechanical properties. Blending or producing layered …

Dextran, comprising a family of neutral polysaccharides consisting of an α-(1→ 6) linked d-
glucose main chain with varying proportions of linkages and branches, depending on the …