Light is an attractive tool that has a profound impact on modern medicine. Particularly, light-
based photothermal therapy (PTT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) show great application …

Supramolecular hydrogels bound by hydrogen bonding, host-guest, hydrophobic, and other
non-covalent interactions are among the most attractive biomaterials available …

Over the last decade, efforts have been oriented toward the development of suitable gels for
3D printing, with controlled morphology and shear-thinning behavior in well-defined …

Microbial infections are a serious healthcare related problem, causing several complications
and even death. That is why, the development of new drug delivery systems with prolonged …

Wound infection is becoming a considerable healthcare crisis due to the abuse of antibiotics
and the substantial production of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Seawater immersion wounds …

Hypothesis Poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA) cryogels can be functionalized with n-Halamines to
confer biocidal features useful for their application as wound-dressing tools. Their efficacy …

The agarose hydrogels (AG HyGels) were fabricated by a solvent casting method at various
agarose concentrations, resulting in the 3D hydrogel networks via the physical crosslinking …

The freeze-thaw (F/T) method is commonly employed during the processing and handling of
drug substances to enhance their chemical and physical stability and obtain pharmaceutical …

A number of synthetic hydrogels suffer from low mechanical strength. Despite of the recent
advances in the fabrication of tough hydrogels, it is still a great challenge to simultaneously …

In recent decades, new and improved materials have been developed with a significant
interest in three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds that can cope with the diverse needs of the …