Designing self-healing hydrogels for biomedical applications

X Ding, L Fan, L Wang, M Zhou, Y Wang, Y Zhao - Materials horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-healing hydrogels have emerged as the most promising alternatives to conventional
brittle hydrogels used in the biomedical field due to the features of long-term stability and …

(Macro) molecular self-assembly for hydrogel drug delivery

MJ Webber, ET Pashuck - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrogels prepared via self-assembly offer scalable and tunable platforms for drug delivery
applications. Molecular-scale self-assembly leverages an interplay of attractive and …

Tough, waterproofing, and sustainable bio‐adhesive inspired by the dragonfly wing

Y Zhou, J Luo, Q **g, S Ge, S Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The development of multifunctional bio‐adhesive plays a critical role in achieving a
sustainable society, where the intrinsic sensitivity to water and poor dynamics severely …

Antifouling peptide hydrogel based electrochemical biosensors for highly sensitive detection of cancer biomarker HER2 in human serum

W Wang, R Han, M Chen, X Luo - Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
A facile strategy for the electrochemical detection of human epidermal growth factor receptor
2 (HER2), a breast cancer biomarker, was presented via the fabrication of an antifouling …

An injectable peptide hydrogel with excellent self-healing ability to continuously release salvianolic acid B for myocardial infarction

R Chen, C Zhu, L Xu, Y Gu, S Ren, H Bai, Q Zhou… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Drug-loaded hydrogels can improve blood supply and inhibit extracellular matrix
degradation after myocardial infarction. However, due to the continual dynamic motion of …

Fmoc-diphenylalanine gelating nanoarchitectonics: A simplistic peptide self-assembly to meet complex applications

Y Wang, Q Geng, Y Zhang, L Adler-Abramovich… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-diphenylalanine (Fmoc-FF), has been has been extensively
explored due to its ultrafast self-assembly kinetics, inherent biocompatibility, tunable …

Low molecular weight self-assembling peptide-based materials for cell culture, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, anticancer, drug delivery, bioimaging …

AK Das, PK Gavel - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we have focused on the design and development of low molecular weight self-
assembling peptide-based materials for various applications including cell proliferation …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes as fluorescent probes for monitoring the self-assembly and morphology of peptide/polymer hybrid hydrogels

V Wulf, G Bisker - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels formed via supramolecular self-assembly of fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc)-
conjugated amino acids provide excellent scaffolds for 3D cell culture, tissue engineering …

Unusual two‐step assembly of a minimalistic dipeptide‐based functional hypergelator

P Chakraborty, Y Tang, T Yamamoto, Y Yao… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembled peptide hydrogels represent the realization of peptide nanotechnology into
biomedical products. There is a continuous quest to identify the simplest building blocks and …

Ultrashort peptide self-assembly: front-runners to transport drug and gene cargos

S Gupta, I Singh, AK Sharma, P Kumar - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The translational therapies to promote interaction between cell and signal come with
stringent eligibility criteria. The chemically defined, hierarchically organized, and simpler yet …