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Self-healing hydrogels
About: Self-healing hydrogels is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 34980 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1259816 citations.
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TL;DR: From Wichterle’s pioneering work to the most recent hydrogel-based inventions and products on the market, it provides the reader with a detailed introduction to the topic and perspective on further potential developments.
1,788 citations
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TL;DR: Alginate, being an anionic polymer with carboxyl end groups, is a good mucoadhesive agent and cross-linked alginate has more capacity to retain the entrapped drugs and mixing of alginates with other polymers such as neutral gums, chitosan, and eudragit have been found to solve the problem of drug leaching.
1,724 citations
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TL;DR: In this overview, different chemical and physical crosslinking methods used for the design of biodegradable hydrogels are summarized and discussed.
1,674 citations
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TL;DR: Gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogels have been widely used for various biomedical applications due to their suitable biological properties and tunable physical characteristics and are demonstrated in a wide range of tissue engineering applications including engineering of bone, cartilage, cardiac, and vascular tissues, among others.
1,646 citations
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TL;DR: This review highlights the use of hydrogels (a class of polymeric systems) in controlled drug delivery, and their application in stimuli- responsive, especially pH-responsive, drug release.
1,593 citations