Ice templating soft matter: fundamental principles and fabrication approaches to tailor pore structure and morphology and their biomedical applications

H Joukhdar, A Seifert, T Jüngst, J Groll… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Porous scaffolds are widely used in biomedical applications where pore size and
morphology influence a range of biological processes, including mass transfer of solutes …

A systematic review on new advancement and assessment of emerging polymeric cryogels for environmental sustainability and energy production

A Haleem, JM Pan, A Shah, H Hussain, W He - Separation and Purification …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this review article, main focus was on the macro-porous cryogels synthetic routes and
their applications. Porosity of the material is the main factor of attention for different …

Soft and flexible hydrogel templates of different sizes and various functionalities for metal nanoparticle preparation and their use in catalysis

N Sahiner - Progress in Polymer Science, 2013 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are important functional materials with a myriad of potential applications. As the
chemically stable and interlocked polymeric network retains vast amounts of water without …

Macroporous silk fibroin cryogels

F Ak, Z Oztoprak, I Karakutuk, O Okay - Biomacromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
Silk fibroin cryogels with remarkable properties were obtained from frozen fibroin solutions
(4.2–12.6%) at subzero temperatures between− 5 and− 22° C. This was achieved by the …

A brief history of polymeric cryogels

VI Lozinsky - Polymeric cryogels: macroporous gels with remarkable …, 2014 - Springer
Polymeric cryogels, the gels formed in moderately frozen gelling systems, have been
empirically known for many decades, but systematic scientific research on various cryogels …

Basic principles of cryotropic gelation

VI Lozinsky, O Okay - Polymeric cryogels: Macroporous gels with …, 2014 - Springer
Polymeric cryogels are the gel systems formed in moderately frozen solutions or colloidal
dispersions of precursors potentially capable of gelling. Polymeric cryogels are of growing …

Macroporous composite IPN hydrogels based on poly (acrylamide) and chitosan with tuned swelling and sorption of cationic dyes

ES Dragan, MM Lazar, MV Dinu, F Doroftei - Chemical engineering journal, 2012 - Elsevier
The synthesis of macroporous ionic composite cryogels consisting of two independently
cross-linked and oppositely charged networks is reported in the paper. Semi …

Synthesis and structure–property relationships of cryogels

O Okay, VI Lozinsky - Polymeric cryogels: Macroporous gels with …, 2014 - Springer
Polymeric gels belong to the most important class of functional polymers in modern
biotechnology. They are useful materials for drug delivery systems, artificial organs …

[HTML][HTML] Adsorptive removal of heavy metal ions, organic dyes, and pharmaceuticals by dna–chitosan hydrogels

K Chan, K Morikawa, N Shibata, A Zinchenko - Gels, 2021 - mdpi.com
DNA–chitosan (DNA–CS) hydrogel was prepared by in situ complexation between
oppositely charged DNA and chitosan polyelectrolytes via electrostatic cross-linking to study …

Hierarchically structured DNA‐based hydrogels exhibiting enhanced enzyme‐responsive and mechanical properties

X Du, Y Bi, P He, C Wang, W Guo - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Programmable stimuli‐responsive materials have great potential in biosensing and
biomedical applications. However, the slow response of DNA hydrogels to biological targets …