The exciting advancements in 3D-printing of soft materials are changing the landscape of
materials development and fabrication. Among various 3D-printers that are designed for soft …

Polysaccharides are the most abundant naturally available carbohydrate polymers;
composed of monosaccharide units covalently connected together. Chitosan is the most …

Agarose is a prominent marine polysaccharide representing reversible thermogelling
behavior, outstanding mechanical properties, high bioactivity, and switchable chemical …

This paper provides a review of the literature on the use of Pluronic® triblock copolymers for
drug encapsulation over the last 10 years. A special focus is given to the progress of drug …

Surfactants are essential in the manufacture of polymeric nanoparticles by emulsion
formation methods and to preserve the stability of carriers in liquid media. The deposition of …

The ability to trigger changes to material properties with external stimuli, so‐called “smart”
behavior, has enabled novel technologies for a wide range of healthcare applications …

Various injury defense and repair functions are performed by the skin. Free radicals
secreted after injury cause oxidative stress and inflammatory responses, which make wound …

While the soft mechanics and tunable cell interactions facilitated by hydrogels have attracted
significant interest in the development of functional hydrogel-based tissue engineering …

Hydrogels have attracted much attention for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications
due to the similarity of their biomimetic structure to the extracellular matrix of natural living …

Hydrogels prepared via self-assembly offer scalable and tunable platforms for drug delivery
applications. Molecular-scale self-assembly leverages an interplay of attractive and …