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Biodegradable and electrically conducting polymers for biomedical applications

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Conducting polymers have been widely used in biomedical applications such as biosensors and tissue engineering but their non-degradability still poses a limitation.
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This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 498 citations till now.

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Conductive polymers: towards a smart biomaterial for tissue engineering.

TL;DR: Focusing mainly on polypyrrole, polyaniline and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), this work reviews conductive polymers from the perspective of tissue engineering.
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Antibacterial anti-oxidant electroactive injectable hydrogel as self-healing wound dressing with hemostasis and adhesiveness for cutaneous wound healing

TL;DR: The antibacterial electroactive injectable hydrogel dressing prolonged the lifespan of dressing relying on self-healing ability and significantly promoted the in vivo wound healing process attributed to its multifunctional properties, meaning that they are excellent candidates for full-thickness skin wound healing.
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Antibacterial adhesive injectable hydrogels with rapid self-healing, extensibility and compressibility as wound dressing for joints skin wound healing.

TL;DR: In vivo experiments indicated that curcumin loaded hydrogels significantly accelerated wound healing rate with higher granulation tissue thickness and collagen disposition and upregulated vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in a full-thickness skin defect model.
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Adhesive Hemostatic Conducting Injectable Composite Hydrogels with Sustained Drug Release and Photothermal Antibacterial Activity to Promote Full-Thickness Skin Regeneration During Wound Healing

TL;DR: These adhesive hemostatic antioxidant conductive photothermal antibacterial hydrogels based on hyaluronic acid-graft-dopamine and reduced graphene oxide using a H2 O2 /HPR (horseradish peroxidase) system are prepared for wound dressing and are an excellent wound dressing for full-thickness skin repair.
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Injectable antibacterial conductive nanocomposite cryogels with rapid shape recovery for noncompressible hemorrhage and wound healing.

TL;DR: The authors report on the development of injectable, biocompatible carbon nanotube reinforced quaternized chitosan cryogels with shape memory, conductivity and antibacterial properties for hemostatic control for lethal noncompressible hemorrhage hemostasis and wound healing.
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Synthesis and self-assembly of coil–rod–coil molecules with lateral methyl and ethyl groups in the center of the rod segment

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the synthesis and characterization of the self-assembly behavior of coil-rod-coil oligomers, which consist of five biphenyls linked together with ether bonds as a rod segment.
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Dendronized polyaniline nanotubes for cardiac tissue engineering.

TL;DR: The electroactive and biocompatible results of PGLD-PANINTs observed in this work demonstrate the potential of this nanobiomaterial for the culture of cardiac cells and open the possibility of using this material as a biOCompatible electroactive three-dimensional matrix in cardiac tissue engineering.
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Investigation on anticorrosion performance of nano and micro polyaniline in new water-based epoxy coating

TL;DR: In this article, a new water-based epoxy coating with nano polyaniline (NanoPAni) was used to improve the anti-corrosion performance.
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Design and characterization of bi-soft segmented polyurethane microparticles for biomedical application.

TL;DR: Bi-soft segmented poly(ester urethane urea) microparticles were prepared and characterized aiming at a biomedical application, and are good candidates as non-biodegradable biomedical systems.
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pH/potential-responsive large aggregates from the spontaneous self-assembly of a triblock copolymer in water.

TL;DR: A simple triblock copolymer, mPEG750-aniline pentamer-mPEG 750, was prepared by condensation polymerization and has potential applications in sensors, controlled drug release, and so forth.
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