Ultrasound-activated mechanochemical reactions for controllable biomedical applications
December 2024
Intramolecular bonds in small organic molecules, macromolecules, and organic-inorganic hybrids are broken or formed by ultrasound-activated mechanical force that can be applied with spatial and temporal...
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Programming-via-spinning: Electrospun shape memory polymer fibers with simultaneous fabrication and programming
December 2024
Porous shape memory polymer (SMP) scaffolds are promising ‘smart’ materials for potential use in a wide range of biomedical applications. Electrospinning provides an approach to produce fibrous SMP...
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Progress of Smart Material in the Repair of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
Available online 9 October 2024
Intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) is a prevalent condition leading to back and leg pain as well as chronic disability. It refers to the degeneration of intervertebral disc structure, including...
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Construction of an uricase/catalase/curcumin-co-loaded drug delivery system and its effect on hyper-uric acid-induced kidney injury
September 2024
Hyper-uric acid (UA)-induced kidney injury (HAKI) is caused by the deposition of excess blood UA into the kidneys. We confined molecules of uricase (URI), catalase (CAT), and curcumin (Cur) to a single...
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Smart materials in medicine 5th anniversary
September 2024
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Organic-inorganic nHA-Gelatin/Alginate high strength macroporous cryogel promotes bone regeneration
September 2024
Macroporous cryogel has the advantages of nutrient exchange and cell growth, and is an ideal material for tissue regeneration. In order to strengthen the machenical properties of cryogel for the widely...
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Advances in smart biomaterials that modulate the bone microenvironment to promote bone defect repair in diabetes mellitus
September 2024
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder that can affect the balance of bone metabolism and bone microenvironment, leading to impaired fracture healing. There are several underlying mechanisms...
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Pulmonary delivery of bioadhesive nanoparticles for ALI improvement and ARDS prevention with a single-dose administration
September 2024
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a severe form of acute lung injury (ALI), is the major cause of intensive care unit death worldwide. ALI/ARDS is a common condition characterized by a storm...
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Mitochondrial targeted prodrug nanoparticles for chemo-photodynamic combinational tumour therapy
September 2024
Prodrug nanoparticles have been explored as an effective means for drug delivery because of controlled drug release in a stimulus-responsive manner. Organellar-targeted drug delivery could enhance the...
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Advances of surface modification to alleviate oxidative stress-induced valve degeneration
September 2024
Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a significant public health threat, with heart valve replacement surgery being the standard treatment for severe cases. Despite of advancements in artificial heart valves,...
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Externally triggered drug delivery systems
September 2024
Externally triggered drug delivery systems empower patients or healthcare providers to utilize external stimuli to initiate drug release from implanted systems. This approach holds significant potential...
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Magnesium-based bioceramic-enhanced composites fabricated via friction stir processing
September 2024
Improving the degradation performance and enhancing the biocompatibility are the main challenges of Mg-based biodegradable implants. In this study, a nano-hydroxyapatite-enhanced (nHA) Mg matrix composite...
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The state-of-the-art therapeutic paradigms against sepsis
September 2024
Sepsis frequently leads to life-threatening organ failure due to an in appropriate response by the body to bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) meets biomaterials and biomedicine
June 2024
With the rapid progress of information technology and life sciences, artificial intelligence (AI) technology has substantially changed the way in many areas of biomaterials and biomedicine, including...
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Hydrogel-fiber-mesh-based 3D cell cultures: A new method for studying pituitary tumors
June 2024
Acromegaly is a challenging medical condition that arises from the excessive production of growth hormones and the insulin-like growth factor 1 in the pituitary gland. While surgery is the primary treatment...
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A magnetic-enhanced FRET biosensor for simultaneous detection of multiple antibodies
June 2024
Accurate, rapid and sensitive detection of specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) and immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies in human samples is crucial for preventing and assessing pandemics, especially in the...
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Inhalable nanomedicine for lung cancer treatment
June 2024
Lung cancer has surpassed other types of cancer to become the primary cause of cancer-related deaths. Surgery stands as the foremost clinical treatment strategy available for tackling this condition,...
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Heparin-loaded hierarchical fiber/microsphere scaffolds for anti-inflammatory and promoting wound healing
June 2024
Chronic non-healing wounds induced by oxidative stress and inflammation can activate inflammatory cells and produce large amounts of inflammatory mediators, which fail to maintain homeostasis in the...
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Recent progress of 3D printed vascularized tissues and organs
June 2024
Since the need for vascular networks to supply oxygen and nutrients while expelling metabolic waste, most cells can only survive within 200 μm of blood vessels; thus, the construction of well-developed...
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Mechano-immunological checkpoints: An emerging strategy for investigation and evaluation of disease and therapeutics
June 2024
Over the past decades, increasing evidence has indicated that multiple mechanical signals with different magnitude and pattern, including fluid flow-derived shear stress, topology of extracellular matrix...
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Investigating the anti-inflammatory and bone repair-promoting effects of an injectable porous hydrogel containing magnesium ions in a rat periodontitis mode
June 2024
Periodontitis is associated with several systemic diseases, and advanced periodontitis is often linked to an extensive inflammatory microenvironment and irregularly shaped alveolar bone defects. However,...
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Machine learning for polyphenol-based materials
June 2024
Polyphenol-based materials, primarily composed of polyphenolic compounds, have attracted considerable attention due to their unique chemical structures and biological activities. However, there are...
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Nanoparticles (NPs)-mediated targeted regulation of redox homeostasis for effective cancer therapy
June 2024
Although characterized by high reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, cancer cells maintain redox homeostasis to avoid severe damage (e.g., DNA, protein, and plasma membrane dysfunction) and facilitate...
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Enhancing bone regeneration with a novel bioactive glass-functionalized polyetheretherketone scaffold by regulating the immune microenvironment
March 2024
Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) has become a promising material for bone engineering due to its excellent mechanical properties, radiolucency and chemical resistance. However, its inherent bioinertness...
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Real-time actuation of a dielectric elastomer actuator neuroprosthesis for facial paralysis
March 2024
Facial paralysis is a highly burdening condition, resulting in a patient's inability to move his mimic musculature on one or both sides of his face. This condition compromises the patient's communication...
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