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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Recent Progress of Polysaccharide‐Based Hydrogel Interfaces for Wound Healing and Tissue Engineering
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TL;DR: The authors discuss and summarize the exemplary research works of these hydrogels in the applications of drug release, wound dressing, and tissue engineering, as well as challenges and future perspectives about the development of polysaccharide‐basedhydrogels are discussed.
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On the development and characterisation of crosslinked sodium alginate/gelatine hydrogels.
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Supramolecular biofunctional materials
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Advances in fabricating spherical alginate hydrogels with controlled particle designs by ionotropic gelation as encapsulation systems
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TL;DR: An overview of the current progress in the fabrication of alginate hydrogels with various particle designs is provided, including a discussion of dispersion techniques to pre-template alginates, gelation mechanisms, considerations in selecting suitable fabrication methods, and future directions.
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