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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Biomaterials: Foreign Bodies or Tuners for the Immune Response?
TL;DR: Recent research breakthroughs have provided a broader insight on the correct choice of biomaterial physicochemical modifications to tune the reaction of the host immune system to implanted biomaterial and to favor integration and healing.
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Combinatorial hydrogel library enables identification of materials that mitigate the foreign body response in primates
Arturo J. Vegas,Arturo J. Vegas,Arturo J. Vegas,Omid Veiseh,Joshua C. Doloff,Joshua C. Doloff,Minglin Ma,Minglin Ma,Minglin Ma,Hok Hei Tam,Kaitlin M. Bratlie,Kaitlin M. Bratlie,Jie Li,Jie Li,Andrew Bader,Andrew Bader,Erin Langan,Erin Langan,Karsten Olejnik,Karsten Olejnik,Patrick Fenton,Patrick Fenton,Jeon Woong Kang,Jennifer Hollister-Locke,Matthew A. Bochenek,Alan Chiu,Alan Chiu,Sean M. Siebert,Sean M. Siebert,Katherine Tang,Katherine Tang,Siddharth Jhunjhunwala,Siddharth Jhunjhunwala,Stephanie Aresta-Dasilva,Stephanie Aresta-Dasilva,Nimit Dholakia,Nimit Dholakia,Raj Thakrar,Raj Thakrar,Thema Vietti,Thema Vietti,Michael Chen,Michael Chen,Josh Cohen,Karolina Siniakowicz,Meirigeng Qi,James J. McGarrigle,Stephen Lyle,David M. Harlan,Dale L. Greiner,Jose Oberholzer,Gordon C. Weir,Robert Langer,Robert Langer,Daniel G. Anderson,Daniel G. Anderson +55 more
TL;DR: This article used a combinatorial approach for covalent chemical modification to generate a large library of variants of one of the most widely used hydrogel biomaterials, alginate.
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3D Bioprinting for Organ Regeneration
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High-performance stretchable conductive nanocomposites: materials, processes, and device applications
TL;DR: The recent advances in stretchable conductors based on the percolation networks of nanoscale conductive fillers in elastomeric media are summarized and various techniques that are used to reduce the contact resistance between the conductive filler materials are highlighted.
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Fabrication of Scaffolds for Bone-Tissue Regeneration.
TL;DR: The state of the art in the rapidly developing field of bone tissue engineering is described, where many disciplines, such as material science, mechanical engineering, clinical medicine and genetics, are interconnected.
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