Designing hydrogels for controlled drug delivery

J Li, DJ Mooney - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Hydrogel delivery systems can leverage therapeutically beneficial outcomes of drug delivery
and have found clinical use. Hydrogels can provide spatial and temporal control over the …

Supramolecular hydrogelators and hydrogels: from soft matter to molecular biomaterials

X Du, J Zhou, J Shi, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this review we intend to provide a relatively comprehensive summary of the work of
supramolecular hydrogelators after 2004 and to put emphasis particularly on the …

Peptide self-assembly: thermodynamics and kinetics

J Wang, K Liu, R **ng, X Yan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembling systems play a significant role in physiological functions and have therefore
attracted tremendous attention due to their great potential for applications in energy …

Emerging frontiers in drug delivery

MW Tibbitt, JE Dahlman, R Langer - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Medicine relies on the use of pharmacologically active agents (drugs) to manage and treat
disease. However, drugs are not inherently effective; the benefit of a drug is directly related …

Natural‐based nanocomposites for bone tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: A review

S Pina, JM Oliveira, RL Reis - Advanced Materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine has been providing exciting technologies for
the development of functional substitutes aimed to repair and regenerate damaged tissues …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advancements of nanoparticles application in cancer and neurodegenerative disorders: At a glance

MM Rahman, MR Islam, S Akash… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanoscale engineering is one of the innovative approaches to heal multitudes of ailments,
such as varieties of malignancies, neurological problems, and infectious illnesses …

Shear-thinning hydrogels for biomedical applications

M Guvendiren, HD Lu, JA Burdick - Soft matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Injectable hydrogels are becoming increasingly important in the fields of tissue engineering
and drug delivery due to their tunable properties, controllable degradation, high water …

Synthesis of a glycan hairpin

G Fittolani, T Tyrikos-Ergas, A Poveda, Y Yu… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The primary sequence of a biopolymer encodes the essential information for folding,
permitting to carry out sophisticated functions. Inspired by natural biopolymers, peptide and …

Self-assembled peptide nanostructures: the design of molecular building blocks and their technological utilization

E Gazit - Chemical Society Reviews, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
In this tutorial review the process and applications of peptide self-assembly into nanotubes,
nanospheres, nanofibrils, nanotapes, and other ordered structures at the nano-scale are …

Rheological properties of peptide-based hydrogels for biomedical and other applications

C Yan, DJ Pochan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide-based hydrogels are an important class of biomaterials finding use in food industry
and potential use in tissue engineering, drug delivery and microfluidics. A primary …