Control strategies of ice nucleation, growth, and recrystallization for cryopreservation

M Lin, H Cao, J Li - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The cryopreservation of biomaterials is fundamental to modern biotechnology and
biomedicine, but the biggest challenge is the formation of ice, resulting in fatal cryoinjury to …

Freezing biological organisms for biomedical applications

G Kuang, Q Zhang, J Jia, Y Yu - Smart Medicine, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biological organisms play important roles in human health, either in a commensal or
pathogenic manner. Harnessing inactivated organisms or living organisms is a promising …

Pancreatic islet cryopreservation by vitrification achieves high viability, function, recovery and clinical scalability for transplantation

L Zhan, JS Rao, N Sethia, MQ Slama, Z Han… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic islet transplantation can cure diabetes but requires accessible, high-quality islets
in sufficient quantities. Cryopreservation could solve islet supply chain challenges by …

Rapid joule heating improves vitrification based cryopreservation

L Zhan, Z Han, Q Shao, ML Etheridge, T Hays… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cryopreservation by vitrification has far-reaching implications. However, rewarming
techniques that are rapid and scalable (both in throughput and biosystem size) for low …

Advanced cryopreservation as an emergent and convergent technological platform

E Brister, PB Thompson, SM Wolf, JC Bischof - Technology in Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Advanced cryopreservation technologies have the potential to transform organ transplants,
biomedical research, food storage, aquaculture, biodiversity repositories, ecological …

Cryopreservation and revival of Hawaiian stony corals using isochoric vitrification

MJ Powell-Palm, EM Henley, AN Consiglio… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Corals are under siege by both local and global threats, creating a worldwide reef crisis.
Cryopreservation is an important intervention measure and a vital component of the modern …

Reversible Modulation of Plasmonic Coupling of Gold Nanoparticles Confined within Swellable Polymer Colloidal Spheres

Z Ye, C Chen, L Cao, Z Cai, C Xu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic optical modulation in response to stimuli provides exciting opportunities for
designing novel sensing, actuating, and authentication devices. Here, we demonstrate that …

Investigation of rapid rewarming chips for cryopreservation by joule heating

H Han, T Zhan, M Cui, N Guo, H Dang, G Yang, S Shu… - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rapid and uniform rewarming is critical to cryopreservation. Current rapid rewarming
methods require complex physical field application devices (such as lasers or radio …

Magnetic nanoparticle-mediated heating for biomedical applications

EA Kwizera, S Stewart… - Journal of heat …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Magnetic nanoparticles, especially superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs),
have attracted tremendous attention for various biomedical applications. Facile synthesis …

Effects, methods and limits of the cryopreservation on mesenchymal stem cells

J Wang, R Li - Stem cell research & therapy, 2024 - Springer
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a type of cell capable of regulating the immune system,
as well as exhibiting self-renewal and multi-lineage differentiation potential. Mesenchymal …