Design and applications of photoresponsive hydrogels

L Li, JM Scheiger, PA Levkin - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are the most relevant biochemical scaffold due to their tunable properties,
inherent biocompatibility, and similarity with tissue and cell environments. Over the past …

Stimuli‐responsive biomolecule‐based hydrogels and their applications

M Vázquez‐González, I Willner - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This Review presents polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, nucleic acids, peptides, and
proteins as functional stimuli‐responsive polymer scaffolds that yield hydrogels with …

Static and dynamic: evolving biomaterial mechanical properties to control cellular mechanotransduction

W Xie, X Wei, H Kang, H Jiang, Z Chu, Y Lin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a highly dynamic system that constantly offers physical,
biological, and chemical signals to embraced cells. Increasing evidence suggests that …

A review on the design of hydrogels with different stiffness and their effects on tissue repair

T Luo, B Tan, L Zhu, Y Wang, J Liao - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tissue repair after trauma and infection has always been a difficult problem in regenerative
medicine. Hydrogels have become one of the most important scaffolds for tissue …

Stimuli-responsive materials for tissue engineering and drug delivery

S Municoy, MI Alvarez Echazu, PE Antezana… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Smart or stimuli-responsive materials are an emerging class of materials used for tissue
engineering and drug delivery. A variety of stimuli (including temperature, pH, redox-state …

Photocleavable Ortho-Nitrobenzyl-Protected DNA Architectures and Their Applications

MP O'Hagan, Z Duan, F Huang, S Laps, J Dong… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This review article introduces mechanistic aspects and applications of photochemically
deprotected ortho-nitrobenzyl (ONB)-functionalized nucleic acids and their impact on …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in defined hydrogels in organoid research

Z Gan, X Qin, H Liu, J Liu, J Qin - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Organoids are in vitro model systems that mimic the complexity of organs with multicellular
structures and functions, which provide great potential for biomedical and tissue …

Stimuli-responsive toughening of hydrogels

X Lin, X Wang, L Zeng, ZL Wu, H Guo… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Materials with stimuli-switchable properties are widespread in nature. Through biomimicry,
stimuli-responsive hydrogels have received increasing research in recent years. In …

Mechanoelectronic stimulation of autologous extracellular vesicle biosynthesis implant for gut microbiota modulation

S Wan, K Wang, P Huang, X Guo, W Liu, Y Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Pathogenic gut microbiota is responsible for a few debilitating gastrointestinal diseases.
While the host immune cells do produce extracellular vesicles to counteract some …

Recent advances in bio-orthogonal and dynamic crosslinking of biomimetic hydrogels

MR Arkenberg, HD Nguyen, CC Lin - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, dynamic,'click'hydrogels have been applied in numerous biomedical
applications. Owing to the mild, cytocompatible, and highly specific reaction kinetics, a …