The ability of artificial materials to be healed efficiently, mimicking the living organisms,
exhibits a great deal of potential advantages that can revolutionise the operation and …

The development of self-healing materials has received much research attention in the last
two decades. This review paper gathers recent publications on the self-healing polymeric …

Polymeric materials that can be readily modified with (bio) molecules of interest to render
them suitable for intended applications are in demand for use in various areas of biomedical …

In the last decade, interest in the functionalization of surfaces and materials has increased
dramatically. In this regard, click chemistry deserves a central focus because of its mild …

Polymeric brushes provide an attractive functional interface for a variety of applications in
materials and biomedical sciences. Facile access to functionalized brushes can be realized …

Functional polymeric coatings are instrumental in enabling many of the current device
technologies to address challenges in disease diagnostics and their treatment. Thus, facile …

Polymeric surface coatings capable of effectively integrating desired functional molecules
and ligands are attractive for fabricating bio-interfaces necessary for various applications …

Selective modification of polymeric coatings with high fidelity is important for various
biomedical applications. This is especially true if reversible functionalization is desired to …

Polymeric coatings that can undergo effective functionalization with ligands and (bio)
molecules necessary for intended applications are widely employed to engineer functional …

In this study, we report a facile fabrication of poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG) based bulk and
micro-patterned hydrogels that are amenable to functionalization with thiol-bearing …