Hydrogels have emerged as promising antimicrobial materials due to their unique three-
dimensional structure, which provides sufficient capacity to accommodate various materials …

Light guiding and manipulation in photonics have become ubiquitous in events ranging from
everyday communications to complex robotics and nanomedicine. The speed and sensitivity …

Boronic acid-containing hydrogels are important intelligent materials. With the introduction of
boronic acid functionality, these hydrogels exhibit a lot of interesting properties, such as …

We report on highly efficient, bioresponsive, controlled-release antibacterial coatings
constructed by direct assembly of tannic acid (TA) with one of several cationic antibiotics …

A biocompatible hydrogel with a double-membrane structure is developed from cationic
cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and anionic alginate. The architecture of the double …

Core-shell (CS) hydrogels show great potential for the controlled release of fertilizers. In this
work, we prepared an alginate-coated gelatin-cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) hydrogel by a …

We explore responsive properties of hollow multilayer shells of tannic acid assembled with a
range of neutral polymers, poly (N-vinylpyrrolidone)(PVPON), poly (N-vinylcaprolactam) …

The deposition of surface coatings using a step‐by‐step approach from mutually interacting
species allows the fabrication of so called “multilayered films”. These coatings are very …

Localized delivery of bioactive compounds from surfaces of biomedical devices affords
significant therapeutic benefits, and often relies on the capability of surface coatings to …

The present review provides an overview on the recent progress in the development of pH-
and sugar-sensitive layer-by-layer (LbL) thin films and microcapsules in relation to their …