Bioinspired engineering of honeycomb structure–Using nature to inspire human innovation

Q Zhang, X Yang, P Li, G Huang, S Feng… - Progress in Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Honeycomb structures, inspired from bee honeycombs, had found widespread applications
in various fields, including architecture, transportation, mechanical engineering, chemical …

Additive manufacturing of tissues and organs

FPW Melchels, MAN Domingos, TJ Klein… - Progress in polymer …, 2012 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing techniques offer the potential to fabricate organized tissue constructs
to repair or replace damaged or diseased human tissues and organs. Using these …

A magnetically controlled soft microrobot steering a guidewire in a three-dimensional phantom vascular network

S Jeon, AK Hoshiar, K Kim, S Lee, E Kim, S Lee… - Soft robotics, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Magnetically actuated soft robots may improve the treatment of disseminated intravascular
coagulation. Significant progress has been made in the development of soft robotic systems …

Microrobots for minimally invasive medicine

BJ Nelson, IK Kaliakatsos… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Microrobots have the potential to revolutionize many aspects of medicine. These untethered,
wirelessly controlled and powered devices will make existing therapeutic and diagnostic …

Recent progress in magnetically actuated microrobots for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents

J Choi, J Hwang, J Kim, H Choi - Advanced Healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Therapeutic agents, such as drugs and cells, play an essential role in virtually every
treatment of injury, illness, or disease. However, the conventional practices of drug delivery …

New materials for tissue engineering: towards greater control over the biological response

G Chan, DJ Mooney - Trends in biotechnology, 2008 - cell.com
One goal of tissue engineering is to replace lost or compromised tissue function, and an
approach to this is to control the interplay between materials (scaffolds), cells and growth …

Design, manufacturing and applications of small-scale magnetic soft robots

M Eshaghi, M Ghasemi, K Khorshidi - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
During past few years, applications of untethered magnetically controlled soft robots in the
biomedical operations have been extensively reported, which is attributed to the efficient …

Design and preparation of polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering

T Weigel, G Schinkel, A Lendlein - Expert review of medical …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering can be prepared with a multitude of different
techniques. Many diverse approaches have recently been under development. The …

Scaffold design and fabrication

DW Hutmacher, B Tandon, PD Dalton - Tissue engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In this chapter, the authors define central criteria and key constraints in scaffold design. We
then in turn review the current state-of-the-art in manufacturing techniques applied to …

Osteochondral defects: present situation and tissue engineering approaches

JF Mano, RL Reis - Journal of tissue engineering and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Articular cartilage is often damaged due to trauma or degenerative diseases, resulting in
severe pain and disability. Most clinical approaches have been shown to have limited …