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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Bypassing multidrug resistant ovarian cancer using ultrasound responsive doxorubicin/curcumin co-deliver alginate nanodroplets.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a multifunctional smart alginate/perfluorohexane nanodroplets for co-delivery of doxorubicin and curcumin (a strong chemosensitizer).
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A novel approach for precisely controlled multiple cell patterning in microfluidic chips by inkjet printing and the detection of drug metabolism and diffusion
TL;DR: The developed approach presented a feasible way to integrate inkjet cell printing and microfluidic chips for the first time, which is proved to be capable of spatially controlled printing of multiple kinds of cells into a microchip for cell culture, stimulation and analysis, which could be applied to tissue engineering, drug testing and related areas.
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Injectable self-crosslinking hydrogels for meniscal repair: A study with oxidized alginate and gelatin.
TL;DR: The present study aims to develop an injectable hydrogel via borax complexation of oxidized alginate, followed by a self-crosslinking reaction with gelatin through a Schiff's base reaction, which offers a niche for the growth of fibrochondrocytes.
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N-doped catalytic graphitized hard carbon for high-performance lithium/sodium-ion batteries.
TL;DR: A facile synthesis of N-doped graphitized hard carbon via a simple carbonization and activation of a urea-soaked self-crosslinked Co-alginate for the high-performance anode of lithium/sodium-ion batteries is reported.
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Hydrogel-based transparent soils for root phenotyping in vivo
Lin Ma,Yichao Shi,Oskar Siemianowski,Bin Yuan,Timothy K. Egner,Seyed Vahid Mirnezami,Kara R. Lind,Baskar Ganapathysubramanian,Vincenzo Venditti,Ludovico Cademartiri,Ludovico Cademartiri +10 more
TL;DR: A “transparent soil” formed by the spherification of hydrogels of biopolymers is described with high transparency, good mechanical stability, tunable pore sizes, low cost, and easy scalability, and allows for the imaging of unconstrained root systems in vivo by both photography and microscopy.
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