2D nanoclay for biomedical applications: regenerative medicine, therapeutic delivery, and additive manufacturing

AK Gaharwar, LM Cross, CW Peak, K Gold… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Clay nanomaterials are an emerging class of 2D biomaterials of interest due to their
atomically thin layered structure, charged characteristics, and well‐defined composition …

From predictive modelling to machine learning and reverse engineering of colloidal self-assembly

M Dijkstra, E Luijten - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
An overwhelming diversity of colloidal building blocks with distinct sizes, materials and
tunable interaction potentials are now available for colloidal self-assembly. The application …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing bioinks for 3D bioprinting using reactive fillers: A review

S Heid, AR Boccaccini - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
The growing demand for personalized implants and tissue scaffolds requires advanced
biomaterials and processing strategies for the fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) …

Physical and chemical factors influencing the printability of hydrogel-based extrusion bioinks

SC Lee, G Gillispie, P Prim, SJ Lee - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bioprinting researchers agree that “printability” is a key characteristic for bioink
development, but neither the meaning of the term nor the best way to experimentally …

Bioactive nanoengineered hydrogels for bone tissue engineering: a growth-factor-free approach

JR Xavier, T Thakur, P Desai, MK Jaiswal, N Sears… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Despite bone's impressive ability to heal after traumatic injuries and fractures, a significant
need still exists for develo** strategies to promote healing of nonunion defects. To …

Laponite‐based nanomaterials for drug delivery

G Kiaee, N Dimitrakakis, S Sharifzadeh… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Laponite is a clay‐based material composed of synthetic disk‐shaped crystalline
nanoparticles with highly ionic, large surface area. These characteristics enable the …

Graphene chiral liquid crystals and macroscopic assembled fibres

Z Xu, C Gao - Nature communications, 2011 - nature.com
Chirality and liquid crystals are both widely expressed in nature and biology. Helical
assembly of mesophasic molecules and colloids may produce intriguing chiral liquid …

The role of local structure in dynamical arrest

CP Royall, SR Williams - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

[PDF][PDF] Bioactive silicate nanoplatelets for osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells

AK Gaharwar, SM Mihaila, A Swami, A Patel, S Sant… - Adv. Mater, 2013 - researchgate.net
With an aging US population, the occurrence of injuries and degenerative conditions are
subsequently on the rise. As a direct result, there is an increase in demand for therapies that …

Uniformly interconnected silver‐nanowire networks for transparent film heaters

TY Kim, YW Kim, HS Lee, H Kim… - Advanced Functional …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The fabrication and design principles for using silver‐nanowire (AgNW) networks as
transparent electrodes for flexible film heaters are described. For best practice, AgNWs are …