Sustainable polymers are materials derived from renewable, recycled and waste carbon
resources and their combinations, which at the end of life can be recycled, biodegraded or …

Recently, biomedicine and tissue regeneration have emerged as great advances that
impacted the spectrum of healthcare. This left the door open for further improvement of their …

This Review presents polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, nucleic acids, peptides, and
proteins as functional stimuli‐responsive polymer scaffolds that yield hydrogels with …

Abstract The three-dimensional (3D) printing and its extension four-dimensional (4D)
printing technique show great promise for advanced additive manufacturing of functional …

Fiber-optic sensors have developed rapidly because of their excellent sensing
performances and abilities to detect in remote and harsh environments. However, on some …

Intracellular bacteria in latent or dormant states tolerate high‐dose antibiotics. Fighting
against these opportunistic bacteria has been a long‐standing challenge. Herein, the design …

Understanding the surrounding atmosphere and reacting accordingly with a precise action
are always fascinating features of a material. Materials that pose such responsiveness are …

One strategy that has gained much attention in the last decades is the understanding and
further mimicking of structures and behaviours found in nature, as inspiration to develop …

The marriage of nanotechnology and medicine offers new opportunities to fight against
human diseases. Benefiting from their unique optical, thermal, magnetic, or redox properties …

Over the past few years, amino acids (AA) have emerged as promising biomaterials for the
synthesis of functional polymers. Owing to the diversity of functional groups in amino acids …