Highly stretchable and tough pH-sensitive hydrogels with reversible swelling and recoverable deformation

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 4850-4857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Jiao Liu ◽  
Hai Qiang Li ◽  
Bao Yuan Zhang ◽  
Ya Jun Wang ◽  
Xiu Yan Ren ◽  
...  

Stimuli-responsive hydrogels are becoming increasingly important for controlled drug delivery, biosensing, and tissue engineering. It would be much advantageous for intelligent hydrogels if they exhibit superior mechanical performances.

RSC Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (25) ◽  
pp. 14694-14704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Safiya Nisar ◽  
Ashiq Hussain Pandit ◽  
Li-Fang Wang ◽  
Sunita Rattan

We report the synthesis of a novel photocleavable crosslinker and its joining with amine-based polysachharides, viz. chitosan, resulting in the formation of a dual stimuli-responsive hydrogel having UV- and pH-responsive sites.


Coatings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 663
Author(s):  
Heejoo Cho ◽  
Sumin Jeon ◽  
Junghyeok Yang ◽  
Song Yi Baek ◽  
Doeun Kim

The development of functional coating materials has resulted in many breakthroughs in the discovery of energy, environmental, and biomedical applications. Responsive polymeric hydrogels are an example of smart coating materials due to their stimuli-responsive characteristics upon changes in their local environment. This review focuses on the introduction of hydrogel nanoparticles and their applications in functional layers as responsive coating materials. Hydrogels are explained by the composition of cross-links and monomers used for preparation. In particular, an important class of responsive hydrogels, that is, nanosized hydrogel particles (nanogels), are described for thee synthesis, modification, and application in assembly of functional coating layers. Finally, nanogel functional layers for biological applications will be discussed with recent advances in biosensing, tissue engineering, and drug delivery.


Drug Delivery ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 748-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikhil Sood ◽  
Ankur Bhardwaj ◽  
Shuchi Mehta ◽  
Abhinav Mehta

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Meleties ◽  
Priya Katyal ◽  
Bonnie Lin ◽  
Dustin Britton ◽  
Jin Kim Montclare

Owing to their tunable properties, hydrogels comprised of stimuli sensitive polymers are one of the most appealing scaffolds with applications in tissue engineering, drug delivery and other biomedical fields. We...


Author(s):  
Ana C. Marques ◽  
Paulo J. Costa ◽  
Sérgia Velho ◽  
Maria H. Amaral

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 11369
Author(s):  
Ashni Arun ◽  
Pratyusha Malrautu ◽  
Anindita Laha ◽  
Hongrong Luo ◽  
Seeram Ramakrishna

The versatile natural polymer, collagen, has gained vast attention in biomedicine. Due to its biocompatibility, biodegradability, weak antigenicity, biomimetics and well-known safety profile, it is widely used as a drug, protein and gene carrier, and as a scaffold matrix in tissue engineering. Nanoparticles develop favorable chemical and physical properties such as increased drug half-life, improved hydrophobic drug solubility and controlled and targeted drug release. Their reduced toxicity, controllable characteristics of scaffolds and stimuli-responsive behavior make them suitable in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Collagen associates and absorbs nanoparticles leading to significant impacts on their biological functioning in any biofluid. This review will discuss collagen nanoparticle preparation methods and their applications and developments in drug delivery systems and tissue engineering.


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