Meiwen Cao

TL;DR: A positive correlation between the propensity for self-assembly of the peptides, their membrane penetration power, and bactericidal capacity is depicted.

TL;DR: This review provides a comprehensive observation about the PNIPAM-based composite hydrogels for biomedical applications and covers the general principles from the materials choice to the hybridization strategies as well as the performance improvement by focusing on several application areas including drug delivery, tissue engineering and wound dressing.

TL;DR: Mixed thermoreversible gels were successfully fabricated by the addition of a thermosensitive polymer, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), to fibrillar nanostructures self-assembled from a short peptide I3K to mimic the extracellular matrix and could potentially be used as injectable hydrogels for minimally invasive drug delivery or tissue engineering.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of Pd nanoparticles (PdNPs) doped chitosan (CS)-based composite hydrogels were successfully prepared by adding graphene oxide (GO), carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and layered double hydrotalcites (LDHs) to CS hydrogel with glutaraldehyde as a cross-linking agent and in situ growing PdNs.

TL;DR: The results show that wettability and reflectivity of these surfaces strongly depend on the etching method and the resultant surface morphology, and the porous silicon surface produced by thin Pt-assisted acidic etching presents abundant holes and particles with diameters ranging from nanometers to submicrometers.