Synthetic polymers are attracting great attention in the last decades for their use in the
biomedical field as nanovectors for controlled drug delivery, hydrogels and scaffolds …

Understanding and controlling interfaces has proven to be key to a very wide range of
applications, from optical and electronic materials 1, 2 to energy storage and production, 3 …

The field of tissue engineering continues to advance, sometimes in exponential leaps
forward, but also sometimes at a rate that does not fulfill the promise that the field imagined a …

Human stem cells, including pluripotent, embryonic and mesenchymal, stem cells play
pivotal roles in cell-based therapies. Over the past decades, various methods for expansion …

Layer-by-layer (LbL) was first introduced as a surface modification technique based on the
sequential spontaneous adsorption of at least two distinct materials onto planar substrates …

The cell microenvironment choreographs the behaviors of cells through multiple well-
controlled signals. For basic biological study and cell-based therapies, it is essential to …

Recent decades have witnessed abundant research on surface modifications to hierarchical
polymer brushes for multiple biomedical applications. The rational design and spatial …

Advances in stem cell technologies, revolutionizing regenerative therapies and advanced in
vitro testing, require novel cell manufacturing pipelines able to cope with scale up and …

Cell sheet technology has remained quite popular among tissue engineering techniques
over the last several years. Meanwhile, there is an apparent trend in modern scientific …

In tissue engineering, it is imperative to control the behaviour of cells/stem cells, such as
adhesion, proliferation, propagation, motility, and differentiation for tissue regeneration …