The major strategies for designing surfaces that prevent fouling due to proteins, bacteria,
and marine organisms are reviewed. Biofouling is of great concern in numerous applications …

Diabetes Mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by high blood glucose levels due to
patients' inability to produce sufficient insulin. Current interventions often require implants …

Cotton fabrics with durable and reusable daylight-induced antibacterial/antiviral functions
were developed by using a novel fabrication process, which employs strong electrostatic …

Gene therapy has shown great potential for neurodegenerative diseases with complex
pathology. However, its therapeutic effect is limited due to the delivery barriers and its own …

Conductive polymers (CPs) are organic materials that hold great promise for biomedicine.
Potential applications include in vitro or implantable electrodes for excitable cell recording …

In this work, non-solvent induced phase separation method was applied to develop
polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)/graphene oxide (GO) scaffold for nerve tissue engineering …

The interaction between cells and nanostructured materials is attracting increasing interest,
because of the possibility to open up novel concepts for the design of smart …

Multifunctional self-healing hydrogel coatings based on a dynamic disulfide exchange
reaction were developed via surface-initiated thiol–ene photopolymerization. The functional …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201501726 and flexible method for the fabrication of functional polymer
films on various substrates.[7a, 9] When weak polyelectrolytes are employed for LbL …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than
24 million people worldwide and represents an immense medical, social and economic …