Affordable Magnetic Hydrogels Prepared from Biocompatible and Biodegradable Sources

Thermoresponsive, stretchable, biodegradable and biocompatible poly(glycerol sebacate)-based polyurethane hydrogels

Hydrogels Prepared from Cross-Linked Nanofibrillated Cellulose

Nanocomposite hydrogels were developed by cross-linking nanofibrillated cellulose with poly(methyl vinyl ether-co-maleic acid) and polyethylene glycol. The cross-linked hydrogels showed enhanced water absorption and gel content with the addition of nanocellulose. In addition, the thermal stability, mechanical strength, and modulus increased with an increase in the amount of nanocellulose in hyd...

Biocompatible and biodegradable photopolymers for microstereolitho- graphy

The fabrication of geometrically well defined 3-dimensional scaffolds offering good cell adhesion is still an important topic in tissue engineering. Microstereolithography (µSLA), which is based on the photopolymerization of a liquid resin using a laser, turned out to be especially suitable because accessible resolutions of about 5 μm allow the fabrication of cellular structures for a number of...

Making carbon nanotubes biocompatible and biodegradable.

Carbon nanotubes are promising nanomaterials with great potential in the field of nanomedicine for both therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Different approaches have been developed to render this material biocompatible and to modulate any ensuing toxic effects. In the context of medical use, although chemically functionalised carbon nanotubes display reduced toxicity, they are still consid...

New biocompatible thermo-reversible hydrogels from PNiPAM-decorated amyloid fibrils.

New biocompatible temperature-responsive hydrogels have been obtained by using unprecedented low concentration of amyloid fibril-PNiPAM hybrids. The viscoelasticity of the hydrogels can be finely controlled by tuning the PNiPAM layers without changing the structure or concentration of the amyloid fibrils.