Bioinspired polydopamine hydrogels: Strategies and applications

Y Xu, J Hu, J Hu, Y Cheng, X Chen, Z Gu… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polydopamine (PDA) is a fascinating bioinspired material for the construction of diverse
functional materials. In particular, the growing trend of PDA hydrogels clearly reveals the …

Current hydrogel advances in physicochemical and biological response-driven biomedical application diversity

H Cao, L Duan, Y Zhang, J Cao, K Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Hydrogel is a type of versatile platform with various biomedical applications after rational
structure and functional design that leverages on material engineering to modulate its …

Bioengineered nanogels for cancer immunotherapy

X Ma, SJ Li, Y Liu, T Zhang, P Xue, Y Kang… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent years have witnessed increasingly rapid advances in nanocarrier-based
biomedicine aimed at improving treatment paradigms for cancer. Nanogels serve as …

An autocatalytic multicomponent DNAzyme nanomachine for tumor-specific photothermal therapy sensitization in pancreatic cancer

J Yan, X Ma, D Liang, M Ran, D Zheng, X Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multicomponent deoxyribozymes (MNAzymes) have great potential in gene therapy, but
their ability to recognize disease tissue and further achieve synergistic gene regulation has …

Smart polydopamine-based nanoplatforms for biomedical applications: state-of-art and further perspectives

H Xu, Y Zhang, H Zhang, Y Zhang, Q Xu, J Lu… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Thanks to rapid development of nanotechnology, studies have discovered an emerging
polymer nanomaterial—polydopamine (PDA) inspired by natural mussels. PDA possesses …

Nanoagent‐promoted mild‐temperature photothermal therapy for cancer treatment

G Gao, X Sun, G Liang - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photothermal therapy (PTT), which utilizes near‐infrared light‐absorbing agents to ablate
tumor, has emerged as a highly promising anticancer strategy and received intensive …

Low temperature photothermal therapy: Advances and perspectives

K Yang, S Zhao, B Li, B Wang, M Lan, X Song - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Photothermal therapy (PTT) has received increasing attention due to its high selectivity, non-
invasiveness, negligible drug resistance, oxygen independence, and minimal side effects. In …

Phenolic-enabled nanotechnology: versatile particle engineering for biomedicine

D Wu, J Zhou, MN Creyer, W Yim, Z Chen… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Phenolics are ubiquitous in nature and have gained immense research attention because of
their unique physiochemical properties and widespread industrial use. In recent decades …

Nanostructured particles assembled from natural building blocks for advanced therapies

Y Ju, H Liao, JJ Richardson, J Guo… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Advanced treatments based on immune system manipulation, gene transcription and
regulation, specific organ and cell targeting, and/or photon energy conversion have …

Nanogels: Synthesis, properties, and recent biomedical applications

QY Duan, YX Zhu, HR Jia, SH Wang, FG Wu - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanogels, also termed hydrogel nanoparticles, have the properties and functions of both
nanomaterials and hydrogels. Till date, a considerable number of nanogels have been …