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 …

Cartilage-like protein hydrogels engineered via entanglement

L Fu, L Li, Q Bian, B Xue, J **, J Li, Y Cao, Q Jiang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Load-bearing tissues, such as muscle and cartilage, exhibit high elasticity, high toughness
and fast recovery, but have different stiffness (with cartilage being significantly stiffer than …

Injectable polypeptide‐protein hydrogels for promoting infected wound healing

L Cheng, Z Cai, T Ye, X Yu, Z Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Protein is the key composition of all tissues, which has also been widely used in tissue
engineering due to its superior biocompatibility and low immunogenicity. However, natural …

A bioinspired and hierarchically structured shape-memory material

L Cera, GM Gonzalez, Q Liu, S Choi, CO Chantre… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Shape-memory polymeric materials lack long-range molecular order that enables more
controlled and efficient actuation mechanisms. Here, we develop a hierarchical structured …

Recent advances in protein hydrogels: From design, structural and functional regulations to healthcare applications

Q Zhang, Y Liu, G Yang, H Kong, L Guo… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein hydrogels with three-dimensional network structure can be synthesized through both
covalent and noncovalent cross-linking of protein monomers and assemblies, which have …

Engineering shape memory and morphing protein hydrogels based on protein unfolding and folding

Q Bian, L Fu, H Li - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Engineering shape memory/morphing materials have achieved considerable progress in
polymer-based systems with broad potential applications. However, engineering protein …

A review on recent advances of Protein-Polymer hydrogels

Y Tang, X Zhang, X Li, C Ma, X Chu, L Wang… - European Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, polymeric hydrogels have gained significant progress in various
fields. As the most biochemically and structurally functional macromolecules in biological …

4D printing of multi‐stimuli responsive protein‐based hydrogels for autonomous shape transformations

B Narupai, PT Smith, A Nelson - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli responsive hydrogels that can change shape in response to applied external stimuli
are appealing for soft robotics, biomedical devices, drug delivery, and actuators. However …

Advances in the Translation of Electrochemical Hydrogel‐Based Sensors

H Shafique, J de Vries, J Strauss… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Novel biomaterials for bio‐and chemical sensing applications have gained considerable
traction in the diagnostic community with rising trends of using biocompatible and lowly …