[HTML][HTML] A tough act to follow: Collagen hydrogel modifications to improve mechanical and growth factor loading capabilities

SO Sarrigiannidis, JM Rey, O Dobre… - Materials Today Bio, 2021 - Elsevier
Collagen hydrogels are among​ the most well-studied platforms for drug delivery and in situ
tissue engineering, thanks to their low cost, low immunogenicity, versatility, biocompatibility …

Specific ion effects in colloidal and biological systems

W Kunz - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2010 - Elsevier
During the last ten years significant progress has been made in the understanding of
specific ion effects. On the one hand new ideas about the origin of these effects came up …

An interlayer-based positive charge compensation strategy for the preparation of highly selective Mg2+/Li+ separation nanofiltration membranes

K Chen, F Li, T Wei, H Zhou, T Zhang, S Zhao… - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mg 2+/Li+ screening selectivity determines the practical application of
nanofiltration technology in lithium extraction from salt-lake brines and industrial lithium …

Collagen: a network for regenerative medicine

KM Pawelec, SM Best, RE Cameron - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The basic building block of the extra-cellular matrix in native tissue is collagen. As a
structural protein, collagen has an inherent biocompatibility making it an ideal material for …

The biocompatibility and antibacterial properties of collagen-stabilized, photochemically prepared silver nanoparticles

EI Alarcon, K Udekwu, M Skog, NL Pacioni… - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
Spherical 3.5 nm diameter silver nanoparticles (AgNP) stabilized in type I collagen (AgNP@
collagen) were prepared in minutes (5–15 min) at room temperature by a photochemical …

An electrochemical fabrication process for the assembly of anisotropically oriented collagen bundles

X Cheng, UA Gurkan, CJ Dehen, MP Tate… - Biomaterials, 2008 - Elsevier
Controlled assembly of collagen molecules in vitro remains a major challenge for fabricating
the next generation of engineered tissues. Here we present a novel electrochemical …

CollagenTransformer: end-to-end transformer model to predict thermal stability of collagen triple helices using an NLP approach

E Khare, C Gonzalez-Obeso, DL Kaplan… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Collagen is one of the most important structural proteins in biology, and its structural
hierarchy plays a crucial role in many mechanically important biomaterials. Here, we …

Extracellular Barriers to in Vivo PEI and PEGylated PEI Polyplex-Mediated Gene Delivery to the Liver

RS Burke, SH Pun - Bioconjugate chemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
Polyplex-mediated gene therapy is a promising alternative to viral gene therapy. One
challenge to these synthetic carriers is reduced transfection efficiencies in vivo compared to …

Engineered pullulan–collagen composite dermal hydrogels improve early cutaneous wound healing

VW Wong, KC Rustad, MG Galvez… - … engineering part A, 2011 - liebertpub.com
New strategies for skin regeneration are needed to address the significant medical burden
caused by cutaneous wounds and disease. In this study, pullulan–collagen composite …

Tuning the elastic modulus of hydrated collagen fibrils

CA Grant, DJ Brockwell, SE Radford, NH Thomson - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
Systematic variation of solution conditions reveals that the elastic modulus (E) of individual
collagen fibrils can be varied over a range of 2–200 MPa. Nanoindentation of reconstituted …