Smart stimuli-responsive materials can respond to different signals (pH, temperature, light,
electricity, etc.), and they have become a hot research topic for drug delivery. As a …

Polysaccharides are essential macromolecules which almost exist in all living forms, and
have important biological functions, they are getting more attention because they exhibit a …

Wounds have become one of the causes of death worldwide. The metabolic disorder of the
wound microenvironment can lead to a series of serious symptoms, especially chronic …

Physically cross-linked hydrogels are used as scaffolds in tissue engineering applications
because they are easily produced and avoid the potential toxicity produced by chemical …

A prominent research topic in contemporary advanced functional materials science is the
production of smart materials based on polymers that may independently adjust their …

Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM)-based thermosensitive hydrogels demonstrate great
potential in biomedical applications. However, they have inherent drawbacks such as low …

Thermogels are also known as thermo-sensitive or thermo-responsive hydrogels and can
undergo a sol–gel transition as the temperature increases. This thermogelling behavior is …

Thermoresponsive polymers constitute an important class of materials for biomedical
application due to their thermally reversible coil-to-globule transition which can be exploited …

Wounds are a major health concern affecting the lives of millions of people. Some wounds
may pass a threshold diameter to become unrecoverable by themselves. These wounds …

3D-Bioprinting has seen a rapid expansion in the last few years, with an increasing number
of reported bioinks. Alginate is a natural biopolymer that forms hydrogels by ionic cross …