Techniques for fabrication and construction of three-dimensional scaffolds for tissue engineering

T Lu, Y Li, T Chen - International journal of nanomedicine, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Three-dimensional biomimetic scaffolds have widespread applications in biomedical tissue
engineering because of their nanoscaled architecture, eg, nanofibers and nanopores …

RAFT polymerization to form stimuli-responsive polymers

G Moad - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-responsive polymers adapt to their surrounding environment. These polymers are
capable of responding to a variety of external stimuli, which include optical, electrical …

Living radical polymerization by the RAFT process–a third update

G Moad, E Rizzardo, SH Thang - Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
This paper provides a third update to the review of reversible deactivation radical
polymerization (RDRP) achieved with thiocarbonylthio compounds (ZC (= S) SR) by a …

Citric acid crosslinked carboxymethylcellulose-polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel films for extended release of water soluble basic drugs

VS Ghorpade, RJ Dias, KK Mali, SI Mulla - Journal of Drug Delivery Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The aim of present work was to develop carboxymethylcellulose (CMC)-polyvinyl alcohol
(PVA) hydrogel films for extended delivery of water soluble basic drug, using citric acid (CA) …

3D printed template‐assisted casting of biocompatible polyvinyl alcohol‐based soft microswimmers with tunable stability

R Sanchis‐Gual, H Ye, T Ueno… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade has seen an upsurge in the development of small‐scale magnetic robots
for various biomedical applications. However, many of the reported designs comprise …

High-strength, anti-fatigue, stretchable self-healing polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel based on borate bonds and hydrogen bonds

L Chen, J Shao, Q Yu, S Wang - Journal of Dispersion Science and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Although self-healing hydrogels have attracted widespread attention in many fields, it
remains a challenge for hydrogel simultaneously achieving toughness, self-healing, and self …

smart and active hydrogels in biotechnology—synthetic techniques and applications

S Khan, L Maryam, A Gulzar, MA Mansoor… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - Springer
Hydrogels have been extensively utilized in biomedical applications for multiple decades
and because of their distinct engineering potential they have been growing with discoveries …

Microstructured, functional PVA hydrogels through bioconjugation with oligopeptides under physiological conditions

SF Chong, AAA Smith, AN Zelikin - Small, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, bioconjugation techniques are developed to achieve peptide functionalization
of poly (vinyl alcohol), PVA, as both a polymer in solution and within microstructured …

Self-healing supramolecular hydrogel of poly (vinyl alcohol)/chitosan carbon dots

Z Zhang, T Li, B Chen, S Wang, Z Guo - Journal of Materials Science, 2017 - Springer
Supramolecular hydrogels are non-covalent three-dimensional networked materials with
many advantages compared to covalently cross-linked ones. In this present work, a …

Poly (vinyl alcohol) physical hydrogels: Matrix-mediated drug delivery using spontaneously eroding substrate

BEB Jensen, I Dávila, AN Zelikin - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Poly (vinyl alcohol) hydrogels have a long and successful history of applications in
biomedicine. Historically, these matrices were developed to be nondegradable limiting …