Utilization of polymers as biomaterials has greatly impacted the advancement of modern
medicine. Specifically, polymeric biomaterials that are biodegradable provide the significant …

Biomaterials have played an increasingly prominent role in the success of biomedical
devices and in the development of tissue engineering, which seeks to unlock the …

Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymer‐based materials with high water content and physical
characteristics that resemble the native extracellular matrix. Because of their remarkable …

New polymers are continuously developed for new therapeutic applications. New and
modified polymer chemistries that offer distinctive degradation and drug delivery are being …

Natural polymers such as collagens, elastin, and fibrinogen make up much of the body's
native extracellular matrix (ECM). This ECM provides structure and mechanical integrity to …

Polymers are important and attractive biomaterials for researchers and clinical applications
due to the ease of tailoring their chemical, physical and biological properties for target …

Patients with extensive burns rely on the use of tissue engineered skin due to a lack of
sufficient donor tissue, but it is a challenge to identify reliable and economical scaffold …

Although electrospinning (e-spinning) has witnessed rapid development in recent years, it
has also been criticized by environmentalists due to the use of organic solvents. Therefore …

Elastin and collagen are the two main components of elastic tissues and provide the tissue
with elasticity and mechanical strength, respectively. Whereas collagen is adequately …

Human lungs are organs with an intricate hierarchical structure and complex composition;
lungs also present heterogeneous mechanical properties that impose dynamic stress on …