Chitosan-based nanoparticles (chitosan-based nanocomposites; chitosan nanoparticles;
ChNPs) are promising materials that are receiving a lot of attention in the last decades …

Degradable biomedical elastomers (DBE), characterized by controlled biodegradability,
excellent biocompatibility, tailored elasticity, and favorable network design and …

Abstract Hydroxyapatite (HAp), a well-known biomaterial, has witnessed a remarkable
evolution over the years, transforming from a simple biocompatible substance to an …

Synthetic polymers have been an integral part of modern society since the early 1960s.
Besides their most well-known applications to the public, such as packaging, construction …

Anti-cancer drugs with various mechanisms emerge in succession, but most of free
therapeutics are accompanied by some disadvantages, such as poor safety and …

The tumor microenvironment (TME), which is mostly composed of tumor cells, immune cells,
signaling molecules, stromal tissue, and the vascular system, is an integrated system that is …

During the last few decades, non-thermal plasma surface functionalization of polymeric
materials has increasingly earned a high-flying position in a wide range of application fields …

There is a general increase in the number of patients with non-healing skin wounds,
imposing a huge social and economic burden on patients and healthcare systems. Severe …

Mitigating the foreign body response (FBR) to implantable medical devices (IMDs) is critical
for successful long‐term clinical deployment. The FBR is an inevitable immunological …

Due to repeated microbial infection, persistent inflammation, excessive oxidative stress, and
cell dysfunction, chronic wounds are difficult to heal, posing a serious threat to public health …