Bioadhesive technology platforms

SJ Wu, X Zhao - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bioadhesives have emerged as transformative and versatile tools in healthcare, offering the
ability to attach tissues with ease and minimal damage. These materials present numerous …

Structuring and sha** of mechanically robust and functional hydrogels toward wearable and implantable applications

XQ Wang, AQ **e, P Cao, J Yang, WL Ong… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels possess unique features such as softness, wetness, responsiveness, and
biocompatibility, making them highly suitable for biointegrated applications that have close …

Designing nanohesives for rapid, universal, and robust hydrogel adhesion

Z Pan, QQ Fu, MH Wang, HL Gao, L Dong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nanoparticles-based glues have recently been shown with substantial potential for hydrogel
adhesion. Nevertheless, the transformative advance in hydrogel-based application places …

Additive manufacturing of highly entangled polymer networks

AP Dhand, MD Davidson, HM Zlotnick, TJ Kolibaba… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Incorporation of polymer chain entanglements within a single network can synergistically
improve stiffness and toughness, yet attaining such dense entanglements through vat …

Lyophilized lymph nodes for improved delivery of chimeric antigen receptor T cells

J Shi, W Wu, D Chen, Z Liao, T Sheng, Y Wang… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Lymph nodes are crucial organs of the adaptive immune system, orchestrating T cell
priming, activation and tolerance. T cell activity and function are highly regulated by lymph …

Mechanical Regulation of Polymer Gels

C Xu, Y Chen, S Zhao, D Li, X Tang, H Zhang… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The mechanical properties of polymer gels devote to emerging devices and machines in
fields such as biomedical engineering, flexible bioelectronics, biomimetic actuators, and …

Wearable and Implantable Soft Robots

S Yin, DR Yao, Y Song, W Heng, X Ma, H Han… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Soft robotics presents innovative solutions across different scales. The flexibility and
mechanical characteristics of soft robots make them particularly appealing for wearable and …

Biofabrication of living actuators

R Raman - Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The impact of tissue engineering has extended beyond a traditional focus in medicine to the
rapidly growing realm of biohybrid robotics. Leveraging living actuators as functional …

4D printing for biomedical applications

A Mandal, K Chatterjee - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
While three-dimensional (3D) printing excels at fabricating static constructs, it fails to
emulate the dynamic behavior of native tissues or the temporal programmability desired for …