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 …

Translational applications of hydrogels

S Correa, AK Grosskopf, H Lopez Hernandez… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Advances in hydrogel technology have unlocked unique and valuable capabilities that are
being applied to a diverse set of translational applications. Hydrogels perform functions …

Tailoring the Swelling‐Shrinkable Behavior of Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

W Feng, Z Wang - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels with tailor‐made swelling‐shrinkable properties have aroused considerable
interest in numerous biomedical domains. For example, as swelling is a key issue for blood …

Designing hydrogels for controlled drug delivery

J Li, DJ Mooney - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Hydrogel delivery systems can leverage therapeutically beneficial outcomes of drug delivery
and have found clinical use. Hydrogels can provide spatial and temporal control over the …

Advances in versatile anti-swelling polymer hydrogels

Y Zhan, W Fu, Y Xing, X Ma, C Chen - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Swelling is ubiquitous for traditional as-prepared hydrogels, but is unfavorable in many
situations, especially biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering, internal wound …

Rational design of dna hydrogels based on molecular dynamics of polymers

Y Li, R Chen, B Zhou, Y Dong, D Liu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, DNA has emerged as a fascinating building material to engineer hydrogel
due to its excellent programmability, which has gained considerable attention in biomedical …

Design and development of hybrid hydrogels for biomedical applications: Recent trends in anticancer drug delivery and tissue engineering

MH Cai, XY Chen, LQ Fu, WL Du, X Yang… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The applications of hydrogels in biomedical field has been since multiple decades.
Discoveries in biology and chemistry render this platform endowed with much engineering …

Swelling-strengthening hydrogels by embedding with deformable nanobarriers

F Wu, Y Pang, J Liu - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Biological tissues, such as muscle, can increase their mechanical strength after swelling due
to the existence of many biological membrane barriers that can regulate the transmembrane …

A review on cellulose nanocrystals as promising biocompounds for the synthesis of nanocomposite hydrogels

J Shojaeiarani, D Bajwa, A Shirzadifar - Carbohydrate polymers, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are hydrophilic cross-linked polymer networks formed via the simple reaction of
one or more monomers with the ability to retain a significant extent of water. Owing to an …

A polydopamine nanoparticle-knotted poly (ethylene glycol) hydrogel for on-demand drug delivery and chemo-photothermal therapy

X Wang, C Wang, X Wang, Y Wang, Q Zhang… - Chemistry of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels have exhibited remarkable benefits in drug delivery such as local delivery, days
or even weeks of continuous drug release with improved bioavailability, and minimized …