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 …

Harnessing the potential of hydrogels for advanced therapeutic applications: Current achievements and future directions

P Lu, D Ruan, M Huang, M Tian, K Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
The applications of hydrogels have expanded significantly due to their versatile, highly
tunable properties and breakthroughs in biomaterial technologies. In this review, we cover …

The bone extracellular matrix in bone formation and regeneration

X Lin, S Patil, YG Gao, A Qian - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bone regeneration repairs bone tissue lost due to trauma, fractures, and tumors, or absent
due to congenital disorders. The extracellular matrix (ECM) is an intricate dynamic bio …

Development of scaffolds from bio-based natural materials for tissue regeneration applications: a review

M Krishani, WY Shin, H Suhaimi, NS Sambudi - Gels, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tissue damage and organ failure are major problems that many people face worldwide.
Most of them benefit from treatment related to modern technology's tissue regeneration …

Natural polymeric scaffolds in bone regeneration

M Filippi, G Born, M Chaaban… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Despite considerable advances in microsurgical techniques over the past decades, bone
tissue remains a challenging arena to obtain a satisfying functional and structural restoration …

An overview of extrusion-based bioprinting with a focus on induced shear stress and its effect on cell viability

S Boularaoui, G Al Hussein, KA Khan, N Christoforou… - Bioprinting, 2020 - Elsevier
Three dimensional bioprinting is an emerging fabrication technique in the field of tissue
engineering. Extrusion-based bioprinting is one of the widely employed biofabrication …

Strategies to use fibrinogen as bioink for 3D bioprinting fibrin-based soft and hard tissues

BAG de Melo, YA Jodat, EM Cruz, JC Benincasa… - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Fibrin gel has been widely used for engineering various types of tissues due to its
biocompatible nature, biodegradability, and tunable mechanical and nanofibrous structural …

Scaffolds for the manufacture of cultured meat

JSH Seah, S Singh, LP Tan… - Critical reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The cultured meat market has been growing at an accelerated space since the first creation
of cultured meat burger back in 2013. Substantial efforts have been made to reduce costs by …

Degradable conductive self-healing hydrogels based on dextran-graft-tetraaniline and N-carboxyethyl chitosan as injectable carriers for myoblast cell therapy and …

B Guo, J Qu, X Zhao, M Zhang - Acta Biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Injectable conductive hydrogels have great potential as tissue engineering scaffolds and
delivery vehicles for electrical signal sensitive cell therapy. In this work, we present the …

A review of 3D polymeric scaffolds for bone tissue engineering: principles, fabrication techniques, immunomodulatory roles, and challenges

AG Abdelaziz, H Nageh, SM Abdo, MS Abdalla… - Bioengineering, 2023 - mdpi.com
Over the last few years, biopolymers have attracted great interest in tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine due to the great diversity of their chemical, mechanical, and physical …