Hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering: the importance of polymer choice

CD Spicer - Polymer Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogel scaffolds that can repair or regrow damaged biological tissue have great potential
for the treatment of injury and disease. These biomaterials are widely used in the tissue …

A review of the designs and prominent biomedical advances of natural and synthetic hydrogel formulations

DA Gyles, LD Castro, JOC Silva Jr… - European Polymer …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are three-dimensional hydrophilic polymeric networks, capable of absorbing
large quantities of water and biological fluids and simulating biological tissue when swollen …

Injectable antiswelling and high-strength bioactive hydrogels with a wet adhesion and rapid gelling process to promote sutureless wound closure and scar-free repair …

X Zhao, J Luo, Y Huang, L Mu, J Chen, Z Liang, Z Yin… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Develo** injectable antiswelling and high-strength bioactive hydrogels with wet tissue
adhesiveness and a rapid gelling process to meet the requirements for rapid hemostasis …

Status and future scope of hydrogels in wound healing: Synthesis, materials and evaluation

J **ang, L Shen, Y Hong - European Polymer Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
The hydrogel wound dressing is an ideal wound treatment because of its excellent
biocompatibility, high moisture resistance and the ability to activate immune cells to speed …

Injectable hydrogels delivering therapeutic agents for disease treatment and tissue engineering

JH Lee - Biomaterials research, 2018 - spj.science.org
Background Injectable hydrogels have been extensively researched for the use as scaffolds
or as carriers of therapeutic agents such as drugs, cells, proteins, and bioactive molecules in …

The production and application of hydrogels for wound management: A review

A Gupta, M Kowalczuk, W Heaselgrave… - European Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Wound treatment has increased in importance in the wound care sector due to the
pervasiveness of chronic wounds in the high-risk population including, but not limited to …

Radical ring-opening polymerization: scope, limitations, and application to (bio) degradable materials

A Tardy, J Nicolas, D Gigmes, C Lefay… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Cyclic monomers bearing either vinyl or exomethylene groups have the ability to be
polymerized through a radical pathway via a ring-opening mechanism (addition …

Polycaprolactone usage in additive manufacturing strategies for tissue engineering applications: A review

EH Backes, SV Harb, CAG Beatrice… - … Research Part B …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polycaprolactone (PCL) has been extensively applied on tissue engineering because of its
low‐melting temperature, good processability, biodegradability, biocompatibility, mechanical …

Design properties of hydrogel tissue-engineering scaffolds

J Zhu, RE Marchant - Expert review of medical devices, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This article summarizes the recent progress in the design and synthesis of hydrogels as
tissue-engineering scaffolds. Hydrogels are attractive scaffolding materials owing to their …

Designing degradable hydrogels for orthogonal control of cell microenvironments

PM Kharkar, KL Kiick, AM Kloxin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Degradable and cell-compatible hydrogels can be designed to mimic the physical and
biochemical characteristics of native extracellular matrices and provide tunability of …