Zwitterionic biomaterials

Q Li, C Wen, J Yang, X Zhou, Y Zhu, J Zheng… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The term “zwitterionic polymers” refers to polymers that bear a pair of oppositely charged
groups in their repeating units. When these oppositely charged groups are equally …

[HTML][HTML] Prevention strategies of postoperative adhesion in soft tissues by applying biomaterials: based on the mechanisms of occurrence and development of …

J Liao, X Li, Y Fan - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Postoperative adhesion (POA) widely occurs in soft tissues and usually leads to chronic
pain, dysfunction of adjacent organs and some acute complications, seriously reducing …

Salting-in effect of zwitterionic polymer hydrogel facilitates atmospheric water harvesting

S Aleid, M Wu, R Li, W Wang, C Zhang… - ACS Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hygroscopic salt-hydrogel composite sorbents have attracted increasing attention for
atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) applications but suffer from the salting-out effect. To …

Emerging materials and strategies for personal thermal management

R Hu, Y Liu, S Shin, S Huang, X Ren… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this decade, the demands of energy saving and diverse personal thermoregulation
requirements along with the emergence of wearable electronics and smart textiles give rise …

Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization: state-of-the-art, opportunities, and challenges in surface and interface engineering with polymer brushes

JO Zoppe, NC Ataman, P Mocny, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Thermo-responsive polymers: Applications of smart materials in drug delivery and tissue engineering

M Sponchioni, UC Palmiero, D Moscatelli - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Synthetic polymers are attracting great attention in the last decades for their use in the
biomedical field as nanovectors for controlled drug delivery, hydrogels and scaffolds …

Polymer brushes: Synthesis, characterization, properties and applications

AM Bhayo, Y Yang, X He - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Polymer brushes are thin polymer films in which the individual polymer chains are tethered
by one chain end to a solid interface. The bulk and solution properties of these highly …

A patterned knitted fabric with reversible gating stability for dynamic moisture management of human body

Y Lin, N Cheng, N Meng, C Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Develo** dynamic moisture management of textiles is of great significance for smart
clothing. However, the current pore‐actuated fabric suffers from macro‐dimensional …

Molecular understanding and design of zwitterionic materials

Q Shao, S Jiang - Advanced materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Zwitterionic materials have moieties possessing cationic and anionic groups. This molecular
structure leads to unique properties that can be the solutions of various application …

Sequence heuristics to encode phase behaviour in intrinsically disordered protein polymers

FG Quiroz, A Chilkoti - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Proteins and synthetic polymers that undergo aqueous phase transitions mediate self-
assembly in nature and in man-made material systems. Yet little is known about how the …