Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

Hydrogels in regenerative medicine

BV Slaughter, SS Khurshid, OZ Fisher… - Advanced …, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels, due to their unique biocompatibility, flexible methods of synthesis, range of
constituents, and desirable physical characteristics, have been the material of choice for …

Vascularization strategies for tissue engineering

M Lovett, K Lee, A Edwards… - Tissue Engineering Part B …, 2009‏ - liebertpub.com
Tissue engineering is currently limited by the inability to adequately vascularize tissues in
vitro or in vivo. Issues of nutrient perfusion and mass transport limitations, especially oxygen …

Modular tissue engineering: engineering biological tissues from the bottom up

JW Nichol, A Khademhosseini - Soft matter, 2009‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Tissue engineering creates biological tissues that aim to improve the function of diseased or
damaged tissues. To enhance the function of engineered tissues there is a need to generate …

Biofabrication: a 21st century manufacturing paradigm

V Mironov, T Trusk, V Kasyanov, S Little, R Swaja… - …, 2009‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Biofabrication can be defined as the production of complex living and non-living biological
products from raw materials such as living cells, molecules, extracellular matrices, and …

Polymer microcapsules and microbeads as cell carriers for in vivo biomedical applications

B Kupikowska-Stobba, D Lewińska - Biomaterials science, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer microcarriers are being extensively explored as cell delivery vehicles in cell-based
therapies and hybrid tissue and organ engineering. Spherical microcarriers are of particular …

The expanding world of tissue engineering: the building blocks and new applications of tissue engineered constructs

P Zorlutuna, NE Vrana… - IEEE reviews in …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of tissue engineering has been growing in the recent years as more products have
made it to the market and as new uses for the engineered tissues have emerged, motivating …