Owing to their tunable properties, controllable degradation, and ability to protect labile
drugs, hydrogels are increasingly investigated as local drug delivery systems. However, a …

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (APDT) encapsulation technology, as a novel
antimicrobial technology, achieves efficient and steady killing of bacteria by encapsulating …

Lacrimal plug is an effective and widely therapeutic strategy to treat dry eye. However,
almost all commercialized plugs are fixed in a certain design and associated with many …

There is need to advance the field of regenerative medicine through a comprehensive
analysis of common biomaterials application. Since lots of studies on tissue engineering …

Natural polymers have been used for the development of innovative hydrogels in order to
improve their properties, principally, their swelling capacity. Herein, an alginate-acrylamide …

Herein, starch-cellulose interpenetrating network (IPN) hydrogels were fabricated by
sequential Diels-Alder click reaction and photopolymerization in water. Moreover, β …

An osteochondral defect is a common and frequent disease in orthopedics and treatment
effects are not good, which can be harmful to patients. Hydrogels have been applied in the …

Hydrogels as drug carriers for delivery of antibiotics are rarely derived from natural
molecules and often require complicated synthesis. Puerarin is an herbal natural product …

These methods describe how to formulate injectable, supramolecular polymer-nanoparticle
(PNP) hydrogels for use as biomaterials. PNP hydrogels are composed of two components …

In recent years significant efforts have been made to develop new materials for wound
dressing with improved healing properties. However, the synthesis methods usually …