3D Bioprinting is a popular method of fabricating scaffolds for tissue engineering. While soft bioinks such as alginate are useful reproducing the softest tissues human body, it remains difficult to print objects out that cannot support their own weight. cryoprinting promising printing and creating highly porous However, crosslinking frozen before they thaw collapse challenge. Here we investiga...

Crosslinking is an effective way to fabricate high-selective CO2 separation membranes because of its unique crosslinking framework. Thus, it is essentially significant to study the influence of crosslinking degree on the permeation selectivities of CO2. Herein, we report a successful and facile synthesis of a series of polyethylene oxide (PEO)-based diblock copolymers (BCP) incorporated with an...

Purpose Second harmonic generation signals (SHG) are emitted preferentially from collagenous tissue structures and have been used to evaluate photochemically-induced (CXL) crosslinking changes in the cornea. Since therapeutic tissue crosslinking (TXL) using sodium hydroxymethylglycinate (SMG) of the sclera is a potential treatment for high myopia, we explored the use of SHG microscopy to evalua...

Toughness and self-healing properties are desirable characteristics in engineered hydrogels used for many practical applications. However, it is still challenging to develop hydrogels exhibiting both of these attractive properties in a single material. In this work, we present the fabrication of fully physically-linked Agar/PAAc-Fe3+ DN gels. These hydrogels exhibited dual physical crosslinking...

Collagen-based scaffolds can be used to mimic the extracellular matrix (ECM) of soft tissues and provide support during tissue regeneration. To better match the native ECM composition and mechanical properties as well as tailor the degradation resistance and available cell binding motifs, other proteins or different collagen types may be added. The present study has explored the use of componen...

Feruloylated arabinoxylan (FAX) from cereal brans has large potential to generate multifunctional materials with customized macromolecular and nanostructural architectures techno-functional properties. Here we investigate the chemical structural mechanisms of hydrogel formation wheat bran FAX following enzymatic crosslinking by laccase a subsequent regeneration procedure involving freeze-drying...