Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in hyaluronic acid-based hydrogels for 3D bioprinting in tissue engineering applications

YW Ding, XW Zhang, CH Mi, XY Qi, J Zhou… - Smart Materials in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D bioprinting technology can rapidly process cell-loaded biomaterials to prepare
personalized scaffolds for repairing defective tissues, tissue regeneration, and even printing …

High-strength hydrogels: Fabrication, reinforcement mechanisms, and applications

H Huang, Z Dong, X Ren, B Jia, G Li, S Zhou, X Zhao… - Nano Research, 2023 - Springer
With the continuous appearance and expansion of high-strength hydrogels in emerging
fields such as industry, medicine, and green development, the synthesis and application of …

Hydrogel wound dressings for bioactive treatment of acute and chronic wounds

J Koehler, FP Brandl, AM Goepferich - European Polymer Journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Hydrogel-based wound dressings are one of the most promising materials in wound care,
fulfilling important dressing requirements, including:(a) keeping the wound moist whilst …

Environmentally Adaptive Polymer Hydrogels: Maintaining Wet‐Soft Features in Extreme Conditions

K Lei, M Chen, P Guo, J Fang, J Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels have been widely explored to adapt to different application circumstances. As
typical wet‐soft materials, the high‐water content of hydrogels is beneficial to their wide …

Advancing biomaterials of human origin for tissue engineering

FM Chen, X Liu - Progress in polymer science, 2016 - Elsevier
Biomaterials have played an increasingly prominent role in the success of biomedical
devices and in the development of tissue engineering, which seeks to unlock the …

[HTML][HTML] A guide to mechanobiology: Where biology and physics meet

KA Jansen, DM Donato, HE Balcioglu, T Schmidt… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cells actively sense and process mechanical information that is provided by the extracellular
environment to make decisions about growth, motility and differentiation. It is important to …

Thiol–norbornene photoclick hydrogels for tissue engineering applications

CC Lin, CS Ki, H Shih - Journal of applied polymer science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Thiol–norbornene (thiol–ene) photoclick hydrogels have emerged as a diverse
material system for tissue engineering applications. These hydrogels are crosslinked …

Influence of the stiffness of three-dimensional alginate/collagen-I interpenetrating networks on fibroblast biology

CB da Cunha, DD Klumpers, WA Li, ST Koshy… - Biomaterials, 2014 - Elsevier
Wound dressing biomaterials are increasingly being designed to incorporate bioactive
molecules to promote healing, but the impact of matrix mechanical properties on the biology …

Hydrogels for 3D mammalian cell culture: a starting guide for laboratory practice

F Ruedinger, A Lavrentieva, C Blume… - Applied microbiology …, 2015 - Springer
Hydrogels have become one of the most popular platforms for three-dimensional (3D)
cultivation of mammalian cells. The enormous versatility of hydrogel materials makes it …