Construction of Robust Assembled Prolamin Protein Hydrogels with Double-crosslinked Networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yixiang Wang ◽  
Lingyun Chen ◽  
Jing Jing Wang ◽  
Song-Qing Hu
Keyword(s):  
Crosslinked Networks ◽  
Protein Hydrogels

scholarly journals Protein Hydrogels: The Swiss Army Knife for Enhanced Mechanical and Bioactive Properties of Biomaterials

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1656
Author(s):  
Carla Huerta-López ◽  
Jorge Alegre-Cebollada
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tissue Engineering ◽  
Polymer Networks ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Protein Hydrogels ◽  
Large Water ◽  
Design Options

Biomaterials are dynamic tools with many applications: from the primitive use of bone and wood in the replacement of lost limbs and body parts, to the refined involvement of smart and responsive biomaterials in modern medicine and biomedical sciences. Hydrogels constitute a subtype of biomaterials built from water-swollen polymer networks. Their large water content and soft mechanical properties are highly similar to most biological tissues, making them ideal for tissue engineering and biomedical applications. The mechanical properties of hydrogels and their modulation have attracted a lot of attention from the field of mechanobiology. Protein-based hydrogels are becoming increasingly attractive due to their endless design options and array of functionalities, as well as their responsiveness to stimuli. Furthermore, just like the extracellular matrix, they are inherently viscoelastic in part due to mechanical unfolding/refolding transitions of folded protein domains. This review summarizes different natural and engineered protein hydrogels focusing on different strategies followed to modulate their mechanical properties. Applications of mechanically tunable protein-based hydrogels in drug delivery, tissue engineering and mechanobiology are discussed.

scholarly journals Functional silk fibroin hydrogels: preparation, properties and applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Zheng ◽  
Baoqi Zuo
Keyword(s):  
Silk Fibroin ◽  
Silk Protein ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Protein Hydrogels

This article reviews the current status of the preparation, properties and application of functional silk protein hydrogels.

On the dynamics of moderately crosslinked networks

1991 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 1316-1317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens‐Uwe Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Crosslinked Networks

Thermoresponsive hybrid double-crosslinked networks using magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles as crossing points

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (37) ◽  
pp. 4642-4650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Blin ◽  
Antoine Niederberger ◽  
Lazhar Benyahia ◽  
Jérôme Fresnais ◽  
Véronique Montembault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Oxide ◽  
Iron Oxide Nanoparticles ◽  
Alder Reaction ◽  
Diels Alder ◽  
Oxide Nanoparticles ◽  
Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles ◽  
Diels Alder Reaction ◽  
Crosslinked Networks ◽  
Stimuli Sensitive

Preparation and characterization of stimuli-sensitive hybrid double-crosslinked hydrogels based on iron oxide nanoparticles as the nano-crosslinkers and a difuran-functionalized PEO as the diene partner for the thermoreversible Diels–Alder reaction.

A Modeling-Based Design to Engineering Protein Hydrogels with Random Copolymers

ACS Nano ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalisa Cardellini ◽  
Felipe Jiménez-Ángeles ◽  
Pietro Asinari ◽  
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Random Copolymers ◽  
Protein Hydrogels
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