Every year, millions of patients suffer the loss or failure of an organ or tissue as a result of
accidents or disease. Over 8 million surgical procedures are performed to treat these …

Polymer scaffolds have many different functions in the field of tissue engineering. They are
applied as space filling agents, as delivery vehicles for bioactive molecules, and as three …

Hydrogels, due to their unique biocompatibility, flexible methods of synthesis, range of
constituents, and desirable physical characteristics, have been the material of choice for …

Alginates have become an extremely important family of polysaccharides because of their
utility in preparing hydrogels at mild pH and temperature conditions, suitable for sensitive …

Alginate hydrogels are proving to have a wide applicability as biomaterials. They have been
used as scaffolds for tissue engineering, as delivery vehicles for drugs, and as model …

A novel biocompatible polysaccharide‐based self‐healing hydrogel, CEC‐l‐OSA‐l‐ADH
hydrogel (“l” means “linked‐by”), is developed by exploiting the dynamic reaction of N …

Injectable, biodegradable scaffolds are important biomaterials for tissue engineering and
drug delivery. Hydrogels derived from natural polysaccharides are ideal scaffolds as they …

Alginate has been widely used in a variety of biomedical applications including drug
delivery and cell transplantation. However, alginate itself has a very slow degradation rate …

Degradability is often a critical property of materials utilized in tissue engineering. Although
alginate, a naturally derived polysaccharide, is an attractive material due to its …

The tremendous interest received by additive manufacturing (AM) within the biomedical
community is a consequence of the great versatility offered in terms of processing approach …