Silk chemistry and biomedical material designs

JK Sahoo, O Hasturk, T Falcucci… - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Silk fibroin has applications in different medical fields such as tissue engineering,
regenerative medicine, drug delivery and medical devices. Advances in silk chemistry and …

Conventional and emerging strategies for the fabrication and functionalization of PDMS-based microfluidic devices

A Shakeri, S Khan, TF Didar - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidics is an emerging and multidisciplinary field that is of great interest to
manufacturers in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry, as it provides unique tools for the …

[HTML][HTML] AI-enabled organoids: construction, analysis, and application

L Bai, Y Wu, G Li, W Zhang, H Zhang, J Su - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Organoids, miniature and simplified in vitro model systems that mimic the structure and
function of organs, have attracted considerable interest due to their promising applications in …

Recent advances in natural polymer-based drug delivery systems

X Tong, W Pan, T Su, M Zhang, W Dong, X Qi - Reactive and Functional …, 2020 - Elsevier
Natural polymers have been extensively explored as the vehicles for encapsulation and
delivery of drugs and other bioactive molecules, which have attracted tremendous attention …

Advances in Hydrogels in Organoids and Organs‐on‐a‐Chip

H Liu, Y Wang, K Cui, Y Guo, X Zhang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Significant advances in materials, microscale technology, and stem cell biology have
enabled the construction of 3D tissues and organs, which will ultimately lead to more …

Interplay between materials and microfluidics

X Hou, YS Zhang, GT Santiago, MM Alvarez… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Developments in the field of microfluidics have triggered technological revolutions in many
disciplines, including chemical synthesis, electronics, diagnostics, single-cell analysis, micro …

Enzymatically crosslinked silk and silk-gelatin hydrogels with tunable gelation kinetics, mechanical properties and bioactivity for cell culture and encapsulation

O Hasturk, KE Jordan, J Choi, DL Kaplan - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Silk fibroin (SF) was enzymatically crosslinked with tyramine-substituted silk fibroin (SF-TA)
or gelatin (G-TA) to fabricate hybrid hydrogels with tunable gelation kinetics, mechanical …

Self‐healing silk fibroin‐based hydrogel for bone regeneration: dynamic metal‐ligand self‐assembly approach

L Shi, F Wang, W Zhu, Z Xu, S Fuchs… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Despite advances in the development of silk fibroin (SF)‐based hydrogels, current methods
for SF gelation show significant limitations such as lack of reversible crosslinking, use of …

Trends in polymeric shape memory hydrogels and hydrogel actuators

J Shang, X Le, J Zhang, T Chen, P Theato - Polymer Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently,“smart” hydrogels with either shape memory behavior or reversible actuation have
received particular attention and have been further developed into sensors, actuators, or …

Enzymatically crosslinked silk-hyaluronic acid hydrogels

NR Raia, BP Partlow, M McGill, EP Kimmerling… - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, silk fibroin and hyaluronic acid (HA) were enzymatically crosslinked to form
biocompatible composite hydrogels with tunable mechanical properties similar to that of …