Publications

Roisin Holmes, Xuebin B. Yang, David J. Wood, Giuseppe Tronci. A photo-click thiol-ene collagen-based hydrogel platform for skeletal muscle tissue engineering. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 2023 (308) 2300029

Charles Brooker, Giuseppe Tronci. A collagen-based theranostic wound dressing with visual, long-lasting infection detection capability. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2023 (236) 123866 

Ben Golland, Joanne L. Tipper, Richard M. Hall, Giuseppe Tronci, Stephen J. Russell. A Biomimetic Nonwoven-Reinforced Hydrogel for Spinal Cord Injury Repair. Polymers 2022 (14) 4376; DOI: 10.3390/polym14204376

Charles Brooker, Giuseppe Tronci. Effect of mammalian tissue source on the molecular and macroscopic characteristics of UV-cured type I collagen hydrogel networks. Prosthesis 2022 (4) 1-14; DOI: 10.3390/prosthesis4010001

He Liang, Jie Yin, Kenny Man, Xuebin B.Yang, Elena Calciolari, Nikolaos Donos, Stephen J.Russell, David J.Wood, Giuseppe Tronci. A long-lasting guided bone regeneration membrane from sequentially functionalised photoactive atelocollagen. Acta Biomaterialia 2022 (140) 190-205

Pawan Dulal, Robabeh Gharaei, Adam Berg, Adam A Walters, Nicholas Hawkins, Tim DW Claridge, Katarzyna Kowal, Steven Neill, Adam J Ritchie, Rebecca Ashfield, Adrian VS Hill, Giuseppe Tronci, Stephen J Russell, Alexander D Douglas. Characterisation of factors contributing to the performance of nonwoven fibrous matrices as substrates for adenovirus vectored vaccine stabilisation. Scientific Reports 2021 (11) 20877 

Jie Yin, David J. Wood, Stephen J. Russell, Giuseppe Tronci. Hierarchically assembled type I collagen fibres as biomimetic building blocks of biomedical membranes. Membranes 2021 (11) 620; DOI: 10.3390/membranes11080620

Ziyu Gao, Layla Hassouneh, Xuebin Yang, Juan Pang, Paul D. Thornton, Giuseppe Tronci. Hydrogen phosphate-mediated acellular biomineralisation within a dual crosslinked hyaluronic acid hydrogel. European Polymer Journal 2021 (143) 110187

Ziyu Gao, Xuebin Yang, Elena Jones, Paul Bingham, Alex Scrimshire, Paul Thornton, Giuseppe Tronci. An injectable, self-healing and MMP-inhibiting hyaluronic acid gel via iron coordination. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2020 (165) 2022-2029

Amy Contreras, Michael J. Raxworthy, Simon Wood, Giuseppe Tronci. Hydrolytic degradability, cell tolerance and on-demand antibacterial effect of electrospun photodynamically active fibres. Pharmaceutics 2020 (12) 711; DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12080711

Heather Owston, Katrina M. Moisley, Giuseppe Tronci, Stephen J. Russell, Peter V. Giannoudis, Elena Jones. Induced periosteum-mimicking membrane with cell barrier and multipotential stromal cell (MSC) homing functionalities. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2020 (21) 5233; DOI: 10.3390/ijms21155233

Ziyu Gao, Pablo Carames-Mendez, Dong Xia, Christopher M. Pask, Patrick C. McGowan, Paul Bingham, Alex Scrimshire, Giuseppe Tronci, Paul Thornton. The Facile and Additive-Free Synthesis of a cell-friendly Iron(III)-Glutathione Complex. Dalton Transactions 2020 (49) 10574-10579 

Robabeh Gharaei, Giuseppe Tronci, Parikshit Goswami, Robert P. Wynn Davies, Jennifer Kirkham, Stephen J. Russell. Biomimetic peptide enriched nonwoven scaffolds promote calcium phosphate mineralisation. RSC Advances 2020 (10) 28332-28342 

Jason V. Rowley, Patrick Wall, Huayang Yu, Giuseppe Tronci, Deirdre A. Devine, Jonathan J. Vernon, Paul D. Thornton. Antimicrobial Dye-Conjugated Polyglobalide-Based Organogels. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2020 (2) 2927-2933

Heather Owston, Payal Ganguly, Giuseppe Tronci, Stephen J. Russell, Peter V. Giannoudis, Elena A. Jones. Colony Formation, Migratory and Differentiation Characteristics of Multipotential Stromal Cells (MSCs) from ‘Clinically Accessible’ Human Periosteum Compared to Donor-Matched Bone Marrow MSCs. Stem Cell International 2019, Article ID 6074245; DOI: 10.1155/2019/6074245

Ziyu Gao, Ben Golland, Giuseppe Tronci, Paul Thornton. A Redox-Responsive Hyaluronic Acid-Based Hydrogel for Chronic Wound Management. Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2019 (7) 7494-7501

Amy Contreras, Michael J. Raxworthy, Simon Wood, Jessica Schiffman, Giuseppe Tronci. Photodynamically active electrospun fibers for antibiotic-free infection control. ACS Applied Bio Materials 2019 (2) 4258-4270

M.T. Arafat, G. Tronci, D.J. Wood, S.J. Russell. In-situ crosslinked wet spun collagen triple helices with nanoscale-regulated ciprofloxacin release capability. Materials Letters 2019 (255) 126550

J. Rickman, G. Tronci, H. Liang, S.J. Russell. Rotation-assisted wet-spinning of UV-cured gelatin fibres and nonwovens (front cover). Journal of Materials Science 2019 (54) 10529-10547

M.B. Bazbouz, G. Tronci. Two-layer electrospun system enabling wound exudate management and visual infection response. Sensors 2019 (19) 991. DOI: 10.3390/s19050991

K.M. Moisley, J.J. El-Jawhari, H. Owston, G. Tronci, S.J. Russell, E. Jones, P.V. Giannoudis. Optimising proliferation and migration of mesenchymal stem cells using platelet products: a rational approach to bone regeneration. Journal of Orthopaedic Research 2019 (37) 1329-1338

H. Liang, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood, G. Tronci. Monomer-induced customisation of UV-cured atelocollagen hydrogel networks. Frontiers in Chemistry 2018 (6) 626. DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00626

M.B. Bazbouz, H. Liang, G. Tronci. A UV-cured nanofibrous membrane of vinylbenzylated gelatin-poly(ϵ-caprolactone) dimethacrylate co-network via scalable free surface electrospinning. Materials Science and Engineering C 2018 (91) 541-555

H. Liang, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood, G. Tronci. A hydroxamic acid-methacrylated collagen conjugate for the modulation of inflammation-related MMP upregulation, J. Mater. Chem. B 2018, accepted on 24.04.2018, DOI: 10.1039/c7tb03035e

S.E.L. Bulman, G. Tronci, P. Goswami, C. Carr, S.J. Russell. Antibacterial properties of nonwoven wound dressings coated with Manuka honey or methylglyoxal, Materials 2017, 10, 954. DOI: 10.3390/ma10080954

R. Holmes, X. Yang, A. Dunne, L. Florea, D. Wood, G. Tronci. Thiol-ene photo-click collagen-PEG hydrogels: impact of water-soluble photoinitiators on cell viability, gelation kinetics and rheological properties, Polymers 2017, 9, 226. DOI: 10.3390/polym9060226 

R. Holmes, S. Kirk, G. Tronci, X. Yang, D.J. Wood. Influence of telopeptides on the structural and physical properties of polymeric and monomeric acid-soluble type I collagen, Materials Science and Engineering C 2017, 77, 823-827

G. Tronci, P. Buiga, A. Alhilou, T. Do, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood. Hydrolytic and lysozymic degradability of chitosan systems with heparin-mimicking pendant groups, Materials Letters 2017, 188, 359-363 

G. Tronci, J. Yin, R. Holmes, H. Liang, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood. Protease-sensitive atelocollagen hydrogels promote healing in a diabetic wound model, J. Mater. Chem. B 2016, 4, 7249-7258

R. Gharaei, G. Tronci, R.P.W. Davies, C. Gough, R. Alazragi, P. Goswami, S.J. Russell. A Structurally Self-Assembled Peptide Nano-Architecture by One-step Electrospinning, J. Mater. Chem. B 2016, 4, 5475-5485 

D. Head, G. Tronci, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood. In silico modeling of the rheological properties of covalently crosslinked collagen triple helices (front cover), ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2016, 2, 1224-1233 

R. Gharaei, G. Tronci, R.P. Davies, P. Goswami, S.J. Russell. An investigation into the nano-/micro-architecture of electrospun poly(e-caprolactone) and self-assembling peptide fibres, MRS Advances 2016, 1, 711-716

G. Tronci, C.A. Grant, N.H. Thomson, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood. Influence of 4-vinylbenzylation on the rheological and swelling properties of photo-activated collagen hydrogels, MRS Advances 2016, 1, 533-538

M.T. Arafat, G. Tronci, J. Yin, D.J. Wood, S.J. Russell. Biomimetic wet-stable fibres via wet spinning and diacid-based crosslinking of collagen triple helices, Polymer 2015, 77, 102-112

X. Qiao, S.J. Russell, X. Yang, G. Tronci, D.J. Wood. Compositional and in vitro evaluation of nonwoven type I collagen/poly-DL-lactic acid scaffold for bone regeneration, Journal of Functional Biomaterials 2015, 6, 667-686

G. Tronci, R. Kanuparti, M.T. Arafat, J. Yin, D.J. Wood, S.J. Russell. Wet-spinnability and crosslinked fibre properties of two collagen polypeptides with varied molecular weight, Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 2015, 81, 112-120

G. Tronci, C.A. Grant, N.H. Thomson, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood. Multi-scale mechanical characterization of highly swollen photo-activated collagen hydrogels, J. R. Soc. Interface 2015, 12: 20141079, DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.1079

A.T. Neffe, B.F. Pierce, G. Tronci, N. Ma, E. Pittermann, T. Gebauer, O. Frank, M. Schossig, X. Xu, B. Willie, M. Forner, A. Ellinghaus, J. Lienau, G.N. Duda, A. Lendlein. One Step Creation of Multifunctional 3D Architectured Hydrogels Inducing Bone Regeneration, Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, 1738-1744

A.T. Neffe, B.F. Pierce, G. Tronci, N. Ma, E. Pittermann, T. Gebauer, O. Frank, M. Schossig, X. Xu, B. Willie, M. Forner, A. Ellinghaus, J. Lienau, G.N. Duda, A. Lendlein. Hydrogels: One Step Creation of Multifunctional 3D Architectured Hydrogels Inducing Bone Regeneration (back cover), Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, 1800

S.E.L. Bulman, P. Goswami, G. Tronci, S.J. Russell, C. Carr. Investigation into the potential use of poly(vinyl alcohol)/methylglyoxal fibres as antibacterial wound dressing components, J. Biomater. Appl. 2015, 29, 1193-1200

G. Tronci, H. Ajiro, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood, M. Akashi. Tunable drug-loading capability of chitosan hydrogels with varied network architectures, Acta Biomater. 2014, 10, 821-830

G. Tronci, A. Doyle, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood. Triple-helical collagen hydrogels via covalent aromatic functionalisation with 1,3-Phenylenediacetic acid, J. Mater. Chem. B 2013, 1, 5478-5488

G. Tronci, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood. Photo-active collagen systems with controlled triple helix architecture, J. Mater. Chem. B 2013, 1, 3705-3715

G. Tronci, A. Doyle, S.J. Russell, D.J. Wood. Structure-property-function relationships in triple-helical collagen hydrogels, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 2013, 1498, 145-150

B.F. Pierce, G. Tronci, M. Roessle, A.T. Neffe, F. Jung, A. Lendlein. Photocrosslinked co-networks from glycidylmethacrylated gelatin and poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylates, Macromol. Biosci. 2012, 12, 484-493

G. Tronci, A.T. Neffe, B.F. Pierce, A. Lendlein. An entropy-elastic gelatin-based hydrogel system, J. Mater. Chem. 2010, 20, 8875-8884

A.T. Neffe, G. Tronci, A. Alteheld, A. Lendlein. Controlled change of mechanical properties during hydrolytic degradation of polyester urethane networks, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2010, 211, 182-194