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Hydrogels for tissue engineering.

Kuen Yong Lee, +1 more
- 31 May 2001 - 
- Vol. 101, Iss: 7, pp 1869-1879
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This article is published in Chemical Reviews.The article was published on 2001-05-31. It has received 4511 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Self-healing hydrogels.

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Advances in Carbon Nanotubes-Hydrogel Hybrids in Nanomedicine for Therapeutics.

TL;DR: The improved comparative performance and biocompatibility of CNT–hydrogels hybrids systems developed for targeted biomedical applications are addressed here and provide deep insights toward their functioning and success as biomedical devices.
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Seaweed polysaccharides and their potential biomedical applications

TL;DR: Alginate, carrageenan, fucoidan, and ulvan are widely used marine derived polysaccharides for biological and biomedical applications due to their biocompatibility and availability and the gel forming property of alginate has increased its applications in tissue engineering and drug delivery as an extracellular matrix and delivery vehicle.
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Hydrogel smart windows

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the recent progress in hydrogel-based smart windows in different categories (thermo-, electro- and humidity-stimuli), focusing on the functional hydrogels material selectivity, working mechanisms and device design.
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Polymers for medical and tissue engineering applications

TL;DR: This review will present an overview of the major classes of polymeric biomaterials, highlight their key properties, advantages, limitations and discuss their applications.
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Highly stretchable and nonvolatile gelatin-supported deep eutectic solvent gel electrolyte-based ionic skins for strain and pressure sensing

TL;DR: In this article, a gelatin biopolymer-supported deep eutectic solvent (DES) gel electrolytes are presented as a promising nonvolatile alternative to hydrogels for ionic skin applications.
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Tissue engineering : Frontiers in biotechnology

R. Langer, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1993 - 
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Solution Properties of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)

TL;DR: In this paper, a lower critical solution temperature of poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide was found to be due to an entropy effect, which was attributed to the formation of nonpolar and intermolecular hydrogen bonds.
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Polymeric Systems for Controlled Drug Release

TL;DR: Kevin Shakesheff investigates new methods of engineering polymer surfaces and the application of these engineered materials in drug delivery and tissue engineering.
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Alginate hydrogels as synthetic extracellular matrix materials

TL;DR: Alginate may prove to be an ideal material with which to confer specific cellular interactive properties, potentially allowing for the control of long-term gene expression of cells within these matrices.
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Biodegradable block copolymers as injectable drug-delivery systems

TL;DR: The synthesis of a thermosensitive, biodegradable hydrogel consisting of blocks of poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(L-lactic acid) and aqueous solutions of these copolymers exhibit temperature-dependent reversible gel–sol transitions.
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