New developments in medical applications of hybrid hydrogels containing natural polymers

C Vasile, D Pamfil, E Stoleru, M Baican - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
New trends in biomedical applications of the hybrid polymeric hydrogels, obtained by
combining natural polymers with synthetic ones, have been reviewed …

Shear-thinning hydrogels for biomedical applications

M Guvendiren, HD Lu, JA Burdick - Soft matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Injectable hydrogels are becoming increasingly important in the fields of tissue engineering
and drug delivery due to their tunable properties, controllable degradation, high water …

Development of bone substitute materials: from 'biocompatible'to 'instructive'

M Bongio, JJJP Van Den Beucken… - Journal of Materials …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Progress made in basic research in the last decades led to a tremendous increase in quality
of clinically applied bone substitute materials (polymers, ceramics and composites). The …

Peptide-based and polypeptide-based hydrogels for drug delivery and tissue engineering

A Altunbas, DJ Pochan - Peptide-based materials, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Bio-inspired materials chemistry is an interdisciplinary field in which biological
functions and structures are used as inspirations to construct a wide variety of new synthetic …

Molecularly Engineered Supramolecular Thermoresponsive Hydrogels with Tunable Mechanical and Dynamic Properties

L Rijns, H Duijs, RPM Lafleur, R Cardinaels… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Synthetic supramolecular polymers and hydrogels in water are emerging as promising
biomaterials due to their modularity and intrinsic dynamics. Here, we introduce temperature …

Extracellular matrix and integrins in embryonic stem cell differentiation

H Wang, X Luo, J Leighton - Biochemistry insights, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are pluripotent cells with great therapeutic potentials. The in
vitro differentiation of ESC was designed by recapitulating embryogenesis. Significant …

Directed intermixing in multicomponent self-assembling biomaterials

JZ Gasiorowski, JH Collier - Biomacromolecules, 2011 - ACS Publications
The noncovalent coassembly of multiple different peptides can be a useful route for
producing multifunctional biomaterials. However, to date, such materials have almost …

Photofunctionalization of alginate hydrogels to promote adhesion and proliferation of human mesenchymal stem cells

O Jeon, E Alsberg - Tissue Engineering Part A, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Photocrosslinkable biomaterials are promising for biomedical applications, as they can be
injected in a minimally invasive manner, crosslinked in situ to form hydrogels with cells …

Mechanical behavior of hybrid hydrogels composed of a physical and a chemical network

J Hao, RA Weiss - Polymer, 2013 - Elsevier
High modulus, high strength hydrogels were prepared from crosslinked copolymers of N, N-
dimethylacrylamide (DMA), 2-(N-ethylperfluoro-octane sulfonamido) ethyl methacrylate …

Multifunctional quantum dot–polypeptide hybrid nanogel for targeted imaging and drug delivery

J Yang, MH Yao, L Wen, JT Song, MZ Zhang, YD Zhao… - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A new type of multifunctional quantum dot (QD)–polypeptide hybrid nanogel with targeted
imaging and drug delivery properties has been developed by metal-affinity driven self …