[HTML][HTML] Going below and beyond the surface: Microneedle structure, materials, drugs, fabrication, and applications for wound healing and tissue regeneration

S Lyu, Z Dong, X Xu, HP Bei, HY Yuen, CWJ Cheung… - Bioactive materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Microneedle, as a novel drug delivery system, has attracted widespread attention due to its
non-invasiveness, painless and simple administration, controllable drug delivery, and …

Harnessing the potential of hydrogels for advanced therapeutic applications: Current achievements and future directions

P Lu, D Ruan, M Huang, M Tian, K Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
The applications of hydrogels have expanded significantly due to their versatile, highly
tunable properties and breakthroughs in biomaterial technologies. In this review, we cover …

Supramolecular adhesive hydrogels for tissue engineering applications

Y Zhao, S Song, X Ren, J Zhang, Q Lin… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Tissue engineering is a promising and revolutionary strategy to treat patients who suffer the
loss or failure of an organ or tissue, with the aim to restore the dysfunctional tissues and …

[HTML][HTML] Novel trends in hydrogel development for biomedical applications: A review

P Sánchez-Cid, M Jiménez-Rosado, A Romero… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, there are still numerous challenges for well-known biomedical applications,
such as tissue engineering (TE), wound healing and controlled drug delivery, which must be …

Scaffolds for drug delivery and tissue engineering: The role of genetics

A Zielińska, J Karczewski, P Eder, T Kolanowski… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Scaffolds are implants commonly used to deliver cells, drugs, and genes into the body. Their
regular porous structure ensures the proper support for cell attachment, proliferation …

Chitin and chitosan as polymers of the future—obtaining, modification, life cycle assessment and main directions of application

K Piekarska, M Sikora, M Owczarek, J Jóźwik-Pruska… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Natural polymers are very widespread in the world, which is why it is so important to know
about the possibilities of their use. Chitin is the second most abundant reproducible natural …

Tannic acid: a versatile polyphenol for design of biomedical hydrogels

H Jafari, P Ghaffari-Bohlouli, SV Niknezhad… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Tannic acid (TA), a natural polyphenol, is a hydrolysable amphiphilic tannin derivative of
gallic acid with several galloyl groups in its structure. Tannic acid interacts with various …

Conductive nanocomposite hydrogels for flexible wearable sensors

WY Guo, MG Ma - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, flexible wearable electronics have been widely used in smart wearable
devices, micro-robots, and sensors due to their seamless integration with the human body …

Structurally dynamic hydrogels for biomedical applications: pursuing a fine balance between macroscopic stability and microscopic dynamics

K Zhang, Q Feng, Z Fang, L Gu, L Bian - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Owing to their unique chemical and physical properties, hydrogels are attracting increasing
attention in both basic and translational biomedical studies. Although the classical hydrogels …

Additive manufacturing of biomaterials for bone tissue engineering–A critical review of the state of the art and new concepts

MM Germaini, S Belhabib, S Guessasma… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing has attracted keen interest in the medical field in recent decades,
especially for bone regeneration. Many additive manufacturing processes have been used …