A comprehensive review on recent advances in preparation, physicochemical characterization, and bioengineering applications of biopolymers

A Das, T Ringu, S Ghosh, N Pramanik - Polymer Bulletin, 2023 - Springer
Biopolymers are mainly the polymers which are created or obtained from living creatures
such as plants and bacteria rather than petroleum, which has traditionally been the source of …

A review of multi-material 3D printing of functional materials via vat photopolymerization

U Shaukat, E Rossegger, S Schlögl - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Additive manufacturing or 3D printing of materials is a prominent process technology which
involves the fabrication of materials layer-by-layer or point-by-point in a subsequent manner …

Fiber-reinforced polymer composites: Manufacturing, properties, and applications

DK Rajak, DD Pagar, PL Menezes, E Linul - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Composites have been found to be the most promising and discerning material available in
this century. Presently, composites reinforced with fibers of synthetic or natural materials are …

Electrospinning of biomedical nanofibers/nanomembranes: effects of process parameters

BA Chinnappan, M Krishnaswamy, H Xu, ME Hoque - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nanotechnology has attracted great attention from researchers in modern science because
nanomaterials have innovative and superior physical, chemical, and biological properties …

Nano-enhanced drug delivery and therapeutic ultrasound for cancer treatment and beyond

P Tharkar, R Varanasi, WSF Wong, CT Jin… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
While ultrasound is most widely known for its use in diagnostic imaging, the energy carried
by ultrasound waves can be utilized to influence cell function and drug delivery …

Spider silk for tissue engineering applications

S Salehi, K Koeck, T Scheibel - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Due to its properties, such as biodegradability, low density, excellent biocompatibility and
unique mechanics, spider silk has been used as a natural biomaterial for a myriad of …

Ag nanoparticles for biomedical applications—Synthesis and characterization—A review

A Nicolae-Maranciuc, D Chicea, LM Chicea - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Silver nanoparticles have been intensively studied over a long period of time because they
exhibit antibacterial properties in infection treatments, wound healing, or drug delivery …

Recent advances in mesenchymal stem cell membrane-coated nanoparticles for enhanced drug delivery

M Wang, Y Xin, H Cao, W Li, Y Hua, TJ Webster… - Biomaterials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Studies of nanomedicine have achieved dramatic progress in recent decades. However, the
main challenges that traditional nanomedicine has to overcome include low accumulation at …

Stimuli‐Driven insulator–conductor transition in a flexible polymer composite enabled by biphasic liquid metal

H Liu, Y Xin, HK Bisoyi, Y Peng, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metal–polymer composites (MPCs) with combined properties of metals and polymers have
achieved much industrial success. However, metals in MPCs are thought to be ordinary and …

Green synthesis, characterization and application of natural product coated magnetite nanoparticles for wastewater treatment

C Das, S Sen, T Singh, T Ghosh, SS Paul, TW Kim… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Adsorption of organic pollutants, toxic metal ions, and removal of harmful bacteria can give
us clean and pure drinkable water from wastewater resources. Respective magnetite …