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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Microstructural, mechanical and mass transport properties of isotropic and capillary alginate gels
Erich Schuster,Erich Schuster,Johanna Eckardt,Anne-Marie Hermansson,Anne-Marie Hermansson,Anette Larsson,Niklas Lorén,Niklas Lorén,Annika Altskär,Annika Altskär,Anna Ström +10 more
TL;DR: The results presented show large functional differences between the internally and externally set gels, which cannot be explained by the presence of capillaries alone.
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Fucoidan Characterization: Determination of Purity and Physicochemical and Chemical Properties
TL;DR: The current article highlights the different spectrometric and nonspectrometric methods applied for the characterization of native fucoidans, including degree of purity, sugar monomeric composition, sulfation pattern and content, molecular mass, and glycosidic linkages.
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The possibility of microbial cellulose for dressing and scaffold materials.
Sang Uk Park,Byung Kwon Lee,Mi Sun Kim,Kwan Kyu Park,Woo Jung Sung,Hyun Yeon Kim,Dong Gil Han,Jeong Su Shim,Yong Jig Lee,Seong-Ho Kim,In Ho Kim,Dae Hwan Park +11 more
TL;DR: It is shown that, in addition to having wound healing effects, MC is biodegradable and non‐toxic and can, therefore, be used as a dressing and scaffold material.
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Transient response of nonlinear polymer networks: A kinetic theory.
TL;DR: This work constructs a statistical description of the population and derives an evolution equation of their distribution based on applied deformation and their local interactions and finds that even under the simplest assumptions of force-independent chain kinetics, the model is able to reproduce complex time-dependent behaviors of rubber and self-healing supramolecular polymers.
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Silk Fibroin-Alginate-Hydroxyapatite Composite Particles in Bone Tissue Engineering Applications In Vivo
You-Young Jo,Seong-Gon Kim,Kwang-Jun Kwon,HaeYong Kweon,Weon-Sik Chae,Won-Geun Yang,Eun-Young Lee,Hyun Seok,Hyun Seok +8 more
TL;DR: The AL/HA/SF composite could be effective as a scaffold for bone tissue engineering and no evidence of the inflammatory reaction or giant cell formation was observed around the residual graft material.
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