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Bioinspired Hydrogels with Broadly Programmable Mechanics for Soft‐Tissue Interfaces

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Sea cucumber‐inspired gelatin hydrogels are formed by directional freezing and mechanically programmed through subsequent ionic treatment. Multiscale characterization and modeling link ion‐regulated chain interactions to directional load transfer within the aligned hierarchical architecture.
Youchao Teng, TzuChun Chung, Katpady Akhil Tantry, Siyu Wu, Jing Tian, Yunqi Cui, Lanyu Li, Yongzan Zhou, Zhilei Zhang, Zhe Su, Gaili Cao, Kun‐Wei Yeh, Ruipeng Li, Xianghui Xiao, Adam F. G. Leontowich, Yuan‐Yu Hsueh, Zhao Pan, Kam C. Tam, Badri Narayanan, Song Li, Yimin. A. Wu   +20 more
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Advancing Human Skin Equivalents: The Crucial Role of Neurovascular Integration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review discusses the importance of integrating vascular and peripheral nerve systems into human skin equivalents (HSEs) to better recapitulate native skin physiology. Recent advances in vascularized, innervated, and neurovascularized HSEs are highlighted, together with emerging bioengineering strategies, current challenges, and future ...
Hao Wu, Lorenzo Moroni, Nicolas Lebonvallet, Vincent Flacher, Paul Wieringa   +4 more
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Dual roles of salivary proteins in feeding and silk fiber coating in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae

Communications Biology
The two-spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae), a plant cell-sucking herbivore, produces nanoscale adhesive silk fibers. Previous silk proteomics identifies Fibroin-1 and Fibroin-2, differing from 17 silk proteins predicted by genome sequencing.
Yuka Arai, Naoki Takeda, Shinya Komoto, Hisashi Murakami, Dagmar Voigt, Takeshi Suzuki   +5 more
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Advances in 3D Bioprinting for Breast Cancer Modeling: Tumor Microenvironment, Metastasis, and Drug Screening

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Three‐dimensional bioprinting transforms breast cancer modeling from simple constructs into spatially organized, multicellular, perfused, and patient‐derived platforms. This review shows how bioinks, cellular composition, architecture, and flow govern tumor behavior and drug response, while revealing why complexity alone is insufficient without ...
Mustafa Nakipoglu, Mahboobeh Mahmoodi, Ehsanul Hoque Apu, Fahimeh Shahabipour, Sibel Emir Diltemiz, Sanjib Saha, Halima Alem, Nureddin Ashammakhi   +7 more
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Fabrication and Biocompatibility of Electrospun Silk Biocomposites

Membranes, 2011
Silk fibroin has attracted great interest in tissue engineering because of its outstanding biocompatibility, biodegradability and minimal inflammatory reaction. In this study, two kinds of biocomposites based on regenerated silk fibroin are fabricated by
Ick-Soo Kim, Byoung-Suhk Kim, Kai Wei
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Photo-elasticity of silk fibroin harnessing whispering gallery modes

Scientific Reports, 2023
Silk fibroin is an important biomaterial for photonic devices in wearable systems. The functionality of such devices is inherently influenced by the stimulation from elastic deformations, which are mutually coupled through photo-elasticity.
Nikolaos Korakas, Davide Vurro, Odysseas Tsilipakos, Thomas Vasileiadis, Bartlomiej Graczykowski, Annamaria Cucinotta, Stefano Selleri, George Fytas, Salvatore Iannotta, Stavros Pissadakis   +9 more
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Proteomic Analysis of Silk Fibroin Reveals Diverse Biological Function of Different Degumming Processing From Different Origin

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022
Silk, as a kind of natural fibrin, has been prepared into various biomaterials due to its excellent biocompatibility and mechanicalness. However, there are some controversies on the biocompatibility of silk fibroin (SF), especially when it coexists with ...
Yaling Wang, Yaling Wang, Yunyun Liang, Jiacen Huang, Yisheng Gao, Zhixin Xu, Xuejun Ni, Yumin Yang, Xiaoming Yang, Xiaoming Yang, Yahong Zhao, Yahong Zhao   +11 more
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Leaftronics: Bio‐Fractal Scaffolds From Leaf Venation for Low‐Waste Electronics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
“Leaftronics” transforms naturally evolved leaf venation into quasi‐fractal scaffolds for sustainable electronics. Polymer‐infiltrated leaf skeletons can be used to fabricate ultra‐smooth, reflow‐ and thin‐film‐compatible decomposable substrates, while making the same lignocellulose networks conducting results in flexible transparent electrodes.
Rakesh Rajendran Nair, Hrisheekesh Thachoth Chandran, Karl Leo, Hans Kleemann   +3 more
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Sustainable and Multifunctional Natural Macromolecular Polymers for Aqueous Zn Metal Batteries

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
We comprehensively review the structure‐function relationships and regulatory mechanism of natural macromolecular polymers in stabilizing zinc anodes at the microscopic and mesoscopic scales. The interactions among polymer structures, optimization strategies, and regulatory mechanisms are discussed systematically summarizing recent related research ...
Yunuo Shi, Bo Jiang, Jingcheng Zhang, Xiaodong Shao, Peixun Xiong, Lutong Shan, Shengyang Huang, Mengfang Liang, Mengyao Chang, Fangyan Liu, Wenwu Li, Baoyu Xia, Wei Ji, Ho Seok Park   +13 more
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Advanced Materials for Biologics Delivery to Brain Tumors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Material innovation is central to unlocking the therapeutic potential of biologics against many central nervous system diseases, including brain cancer. By engineering carriers with controlled transport, targeting, and release properties, advanced materials can overcome the blood–brain barrier and tumor microenvironment, improving the delivery of ...
Yuran Feng, Yuxue Cao, Maria Kavallaris, Taskeen Janjua, Amirali Popat   +4 more
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