Microfluidic formulation of topological hydrogels for microtissue engineering

KO Rojek, M Cwiklinska, J Kuczak… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microfluidics has recently emerged as a powerful tool in generation of submillimeter-sized
cell aggregates capable of performing tissue-specific functions, so-called microtissues, for …

Hydrogels as functional components in artificial cell systems

ME Allen, JW Hindley, DK Baxani, O Ces… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent years have seen substantial efforts aimed at constructing artificial cells from various
molecular components with the aim of mimicking the processes, behaviours and …

Microfluidic fabrication of microparticles for biomedical applications

W Li, L Zhang, X Ge, B Xu, W Zhang, L Qu… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics offers exquisite control over the flows of multiple fluids in microscale,
enabling fabrication of advanced microparticles with precisely tunable structures and …

Jammed microgel inks for 3D printing applications

CB Highley, KH Song, AC Daly… - Advanced Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D printing involves the development of inks that exhibit the requisite properties for
both printing and the intended application. In bioprinting, these inks are often hydrogels with …

Droplet-based microfluidics in biomedical applications

L Amirifar, M Besanjideh, R Nasiri, A Shamloo… - …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Droplet-based microfluidic systems have been employed to manipulate discrete fluid
volumes with immiscible phases. Creating the fluid droplets at microscale has led to a …

Biomass microcapsules with stem cell encapsulation for bone repair

L Yang, Y Liu, L Sun, C Zhao, G Chen, Y Zhao - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
Bone defects caused by trauma, tumor, or osteoarthritis remain challenging due to the lack
of effective treatments in clinic. Stem cell transplantation has emerged as an alternative …

Cell culture in microfluidic droplets

S Sart, G Ronteix, S Jain, G Amselem… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cell manipulation in droplets has emerged as one of the great successes of microfluidic
technologies, with the development of single-cell screening. However, the droplet format has …

Recent methods of droplet microfluidics and their applications in spheroids and organoids

Y Wang, M Liu, Y Zhang, H Liu, L Han - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidic techniques have long been known as a high-throughput approach for
cell manipulation. The capacity to compartmentalize cells into picolitre droplets in …

Trends in droplet microfluidics: From droplet generation to biomedical applications

Z Chen, S Kheiri, EWK Young, E Kumacheva - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, droplet microfluidics has attracted growing interest in biology,
medicine, and engineering. In this feature article, we review the advances in droplet …

A droplet microfluidic system to fabricate hybrid capsules enabling stem cell organoid engineering

H Liu, Y Wang, H Wang, M Zhao, T Tao… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organoids derived from self‐organizing stem cells represent a major technological
breakthrough with the potential to revolutionize biomedical research. However, building high …