State-of-the-art review of advanced electrospun nanofiber yarn-based textiles for biomedical applications

S Wu, T Dong, Y Li, M Sun, Y Qi, J Liu, MA Kuss… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
The pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has made biotextiles, including
face masks and protective clothing, quite familiar in our daily lives. Biotextiles are one broad …

Biodegradable materials for sustainable health monitoring devices

ES Hosseini, S Dervin, P Ganguly… - ACS applied bio …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The recent advent of biodegradable materials has offered huge opportunity to transform
healthcare technologies by enabling sensors that degrade naturally after use. The …

Silk fibroin as sustainable advanced material: material properties and characteristics, processing, and applications

A Reizabal, CM Costa, L Pérez‐Álvarez… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biobased resources are proposed as next‐generation materials for advanced application.
Among them, silk fibroin, a protein‐based material generally obtained from Bombyx mori …

Biomedical applications of recombinant silk‐based materials

TB Aigner, E DeSimone, T Scheibel - Advanced materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Silk is mostly known as a luxurious textile, which originates from silkworms first cultivated in
China. A deeper look into the variety of silk reveals that it can be used for much more, in …

A perspective on the wet spinning process and its advancements in biomedical sciences

AR Shirvan, A Nouri, A Sutti - European Polymer Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, there has been significant growth in the use of fibre-based products
and structures for biomedical applications, with new fibrous materials and manufacturing …

[HTML][HTML] Implantable nerve guidance conduits: Material combinations, multi-functional strategies and advanced engineering innovations

Y Yan, R Yao, J Zhao, K Chen, L Duan, T Wang… - Bioactive Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Nerve guidance conduits (NGCs) have attracted much attention due to their great necessity
and applicability in clinical use for the peripheral nerve repair. Great efforts in recent years …

Silk fibroin biomaterial shows safe and effective wound healing in animal models and a randomized controlled clinical trial

W Zhang, L Chen, J Chen, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Due to its excellent biological and mechanical properties, silk fibroin has been intensively
explored for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. However, lack of …

Tissue repair and regeneration with endogenous stem cells

H Xia, X Li, W Gao, X Fu, RH Fang, L Zhang… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
In contrast to non-mammalian vertebrates, mammals and humans have limited innate
capacity for the self-regeneration of tissues and organs owing to differences in genetics …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in the application of sustained-release drug microspheres in tissue engineering

L Ruan, M Su, X Qin, Q Ruan, W Lang, M Wu, Y Chen… - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Sustained-release drug-loaded microspheres provide a long-acting sustained release, with
targeted and other effects. There are many types of sustained-release drug microspheres …

Protein-based fiber materials in medicine: a review

KG DeFrates, R Moore, J Borgesi, G Lin, T Mulderig… - Nanomaterials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Fibrous materials have garnered much interest in the field of biomedical engineering due to
their high surface-area-to-volume ratio, porosity, and tunability. Specifically, in the field of …