Alginate: properties and biomedical applications
Kuen Yong Lee,David J. Mooney +1 more
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This review will provide a comprehensive overview of general properties of alginate and its hydrogels, their biomedical applications, and suggest new perspectives for future studies with these polymers.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2012-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5372 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Self-healing hydrogels.read more
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In vitro and in vivo biocompatibility evaluation of a 3D bioprinted gelatin-sodium alginate/rat Schwann-cell scaffold
TL;DR: 3D bioprinting was used to construct a nerve scaffold composed of gelatin/alginate hydrogel containing rat Schwann cells and showed good biocompatibility and could be a promising candidate in neural tissue engineering in the future.
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Hydrophobic Hydrogels with Fruit-Like Structure and Functions.
Hui Guo,Tasuku Nakajima,Dominique Hourdet,Dominique Hourdet,Alba Marcellan,Alba Marcellan,Costantino Creton,Costantino Creton,Wei Hong,Wei Hong,Takayuki Kurokawa,Jian Ping Gong +11 more
TL;DR: The Hydrophobic hydrogels have a fruit-like structure, consisting of hydrophobic skin and water-trapped micropores, to display various unique properties, such as significantly enhanced strength, surface hydrophobicity, and antidrying, despite their extremely high water content.
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Composite Double-Network Hydrogels To Improve Adhesion on Biological Surfaces.
Peyman Karami,Céline Samira Wyss,Azadeh Khoushabi,Andreas Schmocker,Martin Broome,Christophe Moser,Pierre-Etienne Bourban,Dominique P. Pioletti +7 more
TL;DR: A composite double-network hydrogel with ∼90% water content is designed, which creates a dissipative interface and robustly adheres to soft tissues such as cartilage and meniscus and provides a promising path to the development of highly adhesive hydrogels for tissues repair.
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Sodium alginate: An efficient biopolymeric catalyst for green synthesis of 2-amino-4H-pyran derivatives
Mohammad G. Dekamin,S. Zahra Peyman,Zahra Karimi,Shahrzad Javanshir,M. Reza Naimi-Jamal,Mehdi Barikani +5 more
TL;DR: Avoiding the use of any transition metal, one-pot and multi-component procedure catalyzed by a renewable biopolymer, the reusability of the catalyst, broad substrate scope and operational simplicity are important features of this methodology for preparation of medicinally important compounds.
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Collagen hydrogel scaffold promotes mesenchymal stem cell and endothelial cell coculture for bone tissue engineering
TL;DR: The development of this dynamic coculture platform for the prevascularization of engineered bone, emphasizing the importance of the construct microenvironments and will advance the clinical use of tissue engineered constructs is proposed.
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