Naturally sourced hydrogels: emerging fundamental materials for next-generation healthcare sensing

Z Wang, H Wei, Y Huang, Y Wei, J Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The flourishing development of flexible healthcare sensing systems is inseparable from the
fundamental materials with application-oriented mechanical and electrical properties …

Biopolymer-based hydrogel electrolytes for advanced energy storage/conversion devices: Properties, applications, and perspectives

T Xu, K Liu, N Sheng, M Zhang, W Liu, H Liu… - Energy Storage …, 2022 - Elsevier
With steadily growing environmental problems by synthetic compounds, using eco-friendly
biomass-derived biopolymers and other native materials has drawn tremendous attention …

Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-linked hydrogel for pharmaceutical applications: a review

R Parhi - Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hydrogels are promising biomaterials because of their important qualities such as
biocompatibility, biodegradability, hydrophilicity and non-toxicity. These qualities make …

Chitosan as a starting material for wound healing applications

V Patrulea, V Ostafe, G Borchard, O Jordan - European Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Chitosan and its derivatives have attracted great attention due to their properties beneficial
for application to wound healing. The main focus of the present review is to summarize …

[HTML][HTML] Chitosan-based biomaterials for tissue engineering

F Croisier, C Jérôme - European polymer journal, 2013 - Elsevier
Derived from chitin, chitosan is a unique biopolymer that exhibits outstanding properties,
beside biocompatibility and biodegradability. Most of these peculiar properties arise from the …

Chitosan-based nanomaterials: A state-of-the-art review

SK Shukla, AK Mishra, OA Arotiba… - International journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
This manuscript briefly reviews the extensive research as well as new developments on
chitosan based nanomaterials for various applications. Chitosan is a biocompatible and …

Chitosan—A versatile semi-synthetic polymer in biomedical applications

M Dash, F Chiellini, RM Ottenbrite, E Chiellini - Progress in polymer science, 2011 - Elsevier
This review outlines the new developments on chitosan-based bioapplications. Over the last
decade, functional biomaterials research has developed new drug delivery systems and …

Chitosan-based hydrogels for controlled, localized drug delivery

N Bhattarai, J Gunn, M Zhang - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are high-water content materials prepared from cross-linked polymers that are
able to provide sustained, local delivery of a variety of therapeutic agents. Use of the natural …

Effectiveness of chitosan scaffold in skin, bone and cartilage healing

A Oryan, S Sahvieh - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2017 - Elsevier
Chitosan (CS) is a carbohydrate biopolymer, which has been known as a biological material
in promoting the healing process of soft and hard connective tissues. It is biocompatible …