Hemoglobin‐Related Biomaterials and their Applications

Nanostructured Biomaterials and Their Applications

Some of the most important advances in the life sciences have come from transitioning to thinking of materials and their properties on the nanoscale rather than the macro or even microscale. Improvements in imaging technology have allowed us to see nanofeatures that directly impact chemical and mechanical properties of natural and man-made materials. Now that these can be imaged and quantified,...

Heparinoid-based Biomaterials and Their Applications

Heparin, heparan sulfate (HS), heparin-like molecules from animal or plant origins, and synthetic derivatives of sulfated polysaccharides are referred to heparinoids. The various biological activities of heparinoids are generally ascribed to their specific interaction with heparin-binding proteins such as growth factors (GFs) and extracellular matrix (ECM) biomolecules, mediated by specific dom...

Citrate-Based Biomaterials and Their Applications in Regenerative Engineering.

Advances in biomaterials science and engineering are crucial to translating regenerative engineering, an emerging field that aims to recreate complex tissues, into clinical practice. In this regard, citrate-based biomaterials have become an important tool owing to their versatile material and biological characteristics including unique antioxidant, antimicrobial, adhesive, and fluorescent prope...

Magentotactic bacteria and their applications

Magentotactic bacteria are the types of bacteria capable of orientation in an external magnetic field because of the ability to produce structures called magnetosomes. Magnetosomes, nanometer-scale structures, are present in most of the magnetotactice bacteria. They are intracellular organelles composed of magnetic iron mineral crystals individually surrounded by a phospholipid layer. Because o...

Sequential Methods and Their Applications