Naturally sourced hydrogels: emerging fundamental materials for next-generation healthcare sensing

Z Wang, H Wei, Y Huang, Y Wei, J Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The flourishing development of flexible healthcare sensing systems is inseparable from the
fundamental materials with application-oriented mechanical and electrical properties …

Silk chemistry and biomedical material designs

JK Sahoo, O Hasturk, T Falcucci… - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Silk fibroin has applications in different medical fields such as tissue engineering,
regenerative medicine, drug delivery and medical devices. Advances in silk chemistry and …

Silk fibroin as a functional biomaterial for tissue engineering

W Sun, DA Gregory, MA Tomeh, X Zhao - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering (TE) is the approach to combine cells with scaffold materials and
appropriate growth factors to regenerate or replace damaged or degenerated tissue or …

3D bioprinted silk fibroin hydrogels for tissue engineering

SH Kim, H Hong, O Ajiteru, MT Sultan, YJ Lee… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The development of biocompatible and precisely printable bioink addresses the growing
demand for three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting applications in the field of tissue engineering …

Functional silk fibroin hydrogels: preparation, properties and applications

H Zheng, B Zuo - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decade, the hydrogels prepared from silk fibroin have received immense
research attention due to the advantages of safe nature, biocompatibility, controllable …

Challenges and recent progress in oral drug delivery systems for biopharmaceuticals

B Homayun, X Lin, HJ Choi - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Routes of drug administration and the corresponding physicochemical characteristics of a
given route play significant roles in therapeutic efficacy and short term/long term biological …

Self-assembling peptide EAK16 and RADA16 nanofiber scaffold hydrogel

F Gelain, Z Luo, S Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Short peptides are ubiquitous in nature. They are found as hormones, pheromones,
antibacterial and antifungal agents in innate immunity systems, toxins, and pesticides. But …

Scaffolding strategies for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications

S Pina, VP Ribeiro, CF Marques, FR Maia, TH Silva… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
During the past two decades, tissue engineering and the regenerative medicine field have
invested in the regeneration and reconstruction of pathologically altered tissues, such as …

Recent progress in silk fibroin-based flexible electronics

DL Wen, DH Sun, P Huang, W Huang, M Su… - Microsystems & …, 2021 - nature.com
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the emergence of 5G,
traditional silicon-based electronics no longer fully meet market demands such as nonplanar …

Functional and biomimetic materials for engineering of the three-dimensional cell microenvironment

G Huang, F Li, X Zhao, Y Ma, Y Li, M Lin, G Jin… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The cell microenvironment has emerged as a key determinant of cell behavior and function
in development, physiology, and pathophysiology. The extracellular matrix (ECM) within the …