Browsing by Subject "hydrogel"
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(2022-04-11)The separation between printed part and vat floor in constrained surface vat photopolymerization (VP) is a crucial issue, which limits the printability on different materials and the overall printing speed. This study aims ...
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(2020-12-08)Synthetic polypeptides constitute a class of polyamides that may impart the biocompatibility, (bio)degradability and conformational properties of proteins, while also allowing for expanded composition and structure to tune ...
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(2017-04-03)Oil and gas production, industrial manufacturing, mining, and agriculture all produce significant amounts of wastewater, often containing harmful heavy metal ions such as cadmium, lead, and arsenic. Radioactive disasters ...
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(2019-07-25)Growing interest in implantable electronics (neuro-integrated prostheses, bionic eyes, etc.) has identified the need to establish functional interfaces between traditional solid-state electronics and biomolecular events ...
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(2015-08-13)An optical biosensor for lactate detection is described. By encapsulating enzymes and phosphorescent oxygen sensing molecules within permeable hydrogel materials, a lactate-sensitive change in emission lifetimes was achieved. ...
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(2020-04-13)Tissue engineered 3D cell culture models have shown promise investigating the influence of the tumor microenvironment on cancer cell behavior. Synthetic hydrogels, such as those made from poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), can ...
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(2017-11-09)Many diagnostic tests for disease management and overall health monitoring provide only an instantaneous measurement of the patient’s state of health, leaving intermediate fluctuations in biochemistry levels undisclosed. ...
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(2011-02-22)The increasing prevalence of diabetes and the severity of long-term complications have emphasized the need for continuous glucose monitoring. Optically-based methods are advantageous as they have potential for noninvasive ...
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(2017-05-04)Regenerative endodontics is one of the most exciting new developments in endodontics. Pulp regeneration can be achieved basically by using a triad of a reliable cell source capable of differentiating, a suitable scaffold, ...
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(2018-08-21)Chronic wounds are a growing healthcare issue afflicting over 40 million people in the United States. Despite the billions of dollars spent each year, complications from diabetic ulcers result in a large number of lower ...
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(2017-04-13)The past decade has witnessed significantly increased interest in the development of smart polypeptide based organo- and hydrogel systems with stimuli responsiveness, especially those that exhibit sol–gel phase-transition ...
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(2009-05-15)Prolonged exposure of humans and experimental animals to microgravity is known to be associated with a variety of physiological and cellular disturbances. With advancements in aerospace technology and prolonged space ...
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(2009-05-15)A simple and efficient technique for the concentration enrichment of charged species within a microfluidic device was developed. The functional component of the system is a hydrogel microplug photopolymerized inside the ...
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(2009-09-30)Growing rat aortic smooth muscle cells (RASMC) in vitro has posed numerous difficulties in the past. Smooth muscle cells are known to need a three-dimensional (3-D) structure, neighboring cells, space to allow for elongation ...
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(2013-11-26)Inteins are proteins encoded within a precursor gene that excise themselves after translation and ligate the surrounding proteins with a peptide bond. Since their discovery two decades ago, many inteins have been engineered ...
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(2014-07-24)The development of fully-implantable therapeutic and diagnostic devices represents a new paradigm in biomedical device design. However, designing materials that can perform as injectable matrices for the delivery of sensing ...
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(2012-07-16)Hydrophobic drug paclitaxel nanoparticles (PAX NPs) and pH sensitive hydrogels were prepared in this study to build a colon targeting nanoparticle based drug delivery system for oral administration. Negative charged PAX ...
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(2019-11-21)Click chemistry reactions have become an important synthetic tool for fabrication of user-defined hydrogels consisting of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and bioactive peptides/proteins for tissue engineering. In this work, ...
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(2022-01-12)Herein, the discovery and application of a novel class of supramolecular secondary interactions between the cycloaddition products of the inverse electron-demand Diels Alder (IEDDA) tetrazine-norbornene click reaction is ...
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(2015-09-24)As regenerative medicine progresses, the need for non-cytotoxic and bioactive tissue scaffolds becomes increasingly urgent. To address this need, a PEG-based hydrogel crosslinked by molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanoassemblies ...