Biomaterials Science

March 2023; Volume 294

An injectable PEG-like conjugate forms a subcutaneous depot and enables sustained delivery of a peptide drug

Imran Ozer, Anna Slezak, Parul Sirohi, Xinghai Li, ... Ashutosh Chilkoti

Biodegradable silica nanocapsules enable efficient nuclear-targeted delivery of native proteins for cancer therapy

Wei Du, Shubo Du, Xiao Dong, Hua Bai, ... Wei Huang

Amphiphilic peptide-tagged N-cadherin forms radial glial-like fibers that enhance neuronal migration in injured brain and promote sensorimotor recovery

Yuya Ohno, Chikako Nakajima, Itsuki Ajioka, Takahiro Muraoka, ... Kazunobu Sawamoto

Tuning the corona-core ratio of polyplex micelles for selective oligonucleotide delivery to hepatocytes or hepatic immune cells

WanLing Foo, Zoltán Cseresnyés, Carsten Rössel, Yingfeng Teng, ... Michael Bauer

August 2020: Issue 8

Characterization of regulatory T cell expansion for manufacturing cellular immunotherapies

David A. McBride, Matthew D. Kerr, Shinya L. Wai, Yvonne Y. Yee, Dora A. Ogbonna and Nisarg J. Shah

July 2020: Issue 7

New strategy for precise cancer therapy: tumor-specific delivery of mitochondria-targeting photodynamic therapy agents and in situ O2-generation in hypoxic tumors

Huachao Chen, Chengkun He, Tianyi Chen and Xuling Xue

June 2020: Issue 6

Nanohybrid carriers: the yin–yang equilibrium between natural and synthetic in biomedicine

Faezeh Ghorbanizamani, Hichem Moulahoum, Figen Zihnioglu and Suna Timur

Biomimetic hydrogels with spatial- and temporal-controlled chemical cues for tissue engineering

Weilue He, Max Reaume, Maureen Hennenfent, Bruce P. Lee and Rupak Rajachar

Tailorable hierarchical structures of biomimetic hydroxyapatite micro/nano particles promoting endocytosis and osteogenic differentiation of stem cells

Dong Xu, Yuxin Wan, Zhihao Li, Chunbao Wang, Qingxia Zou, Chang Du and Yingjun Wang

19F magnetic resonance imaging enabled real-time, non-invasive and precise localization and quantification of the degradation rate of hydrogel scaffolds in vivo

Qinghua Li, Zujian Feng, Huijuan Song, Jianhua Zhang, Anjie Dong, Deling Kong, Weiwei Wang and Pingsheng Huang

Coupling PEG-LZM polymer networks with polyphenols yields suturable biohydrogels for tissue patching

Haoqi Tan, Junjie Sun, Dawei Jin, Jialin Song, Miao Lei, Artem Antoshin, Xin Chen, Meng Yin, Xue Qu and Changsheng Liu

Light-enhanced hypoxia-responsive and azobenzene cleavage-triggered size-shrinkable micelles for synergistic photodynamic therapy and chemotherapy

Zhangting Xu, Chang Pan and Weizhong Yuan

Comparative study of α-helical and β-sheet self-assembled peptide nanofiber vaccine platforms: influence of integrated T-cell epitopes

Yaoying Wu, Sean H. Kelly, Luis Sanchez-Perez, John H. Sampson and Joel H. Collier

May 2020: Issue 5

Biomimic strategies for modulating the interaction between particle adjuvants and antigen-presenting cells

Jie Wu and Guanghui Ma

Injectable hydrogel systems with multiple biophysical and biochemical cues for bone regeneration

Weinan Cheng, Zhaozhao Ding, Xin Zheng, Qiang Lu, Xiangdong Kong, Xiaozhong Zhou, Guozhong Lu and David L. Kaplan

April 2020: Issue 4

Advances in self-assembled injectable hydrogels for cancer therapy

Sandeep Kumar and Avinash Bajaj

March 2020: Issue 3

Enhancing doxorubicin anticancer activity with a novel polymeric platform photoreleasing nitric oxide

Federica Sodano, Robert J. Cavanagh, Amanda K. Pearce, Loretta Lazzarato, Barbara Rolando, Aurore Fraix, Thais F. Abelha, Catherine E. Vasey, Cameron Alexander, Vincenzo Taresco and Salvatore Sortino

February 2020: Issue 2

Optimized fluorodendrimer-incorporated hybrid lipid–polymer nanoparticles for efficient siRNA delivery

Qingqing Xiong, Yujing Li, Kun Zhou, Ping Chen, Hua Guo, Lu Chen, Jianxun Ding, Tianqiang Song and Jinjun Shi

Insights into the epigenetic effects of nanomaterials on cells

Jie Yu, Xian Jun Loh, Yifei Luo, Shengfang Ge, Xianqun Fan and Jing Ruan

Recent innovations in artificial skin

Zhi Wei Kenny Low, Zibiao Li, Cally Owh, Pei Lin Chee, Enyi Ye, Kai Dan, Siew Yin Chan, David James Young and Xian Jun Loh

Dextran-based tube-guides for the regeneration of the rat sciatic nerve after neurotmesis injury

Ana Catarina Pinho, Mariana Vieira Branquinho, Rui Damásio Alvites, Ana Clotilde Fonseca, Ana Rita Caseiro, Sílvia Santos Pedrosa, Ana Lúcia Luís, Isabel Pires, Justina Prada, Luísa Muratori, Giulia Ronchi, Stefano Geuna, José Domingos Santos, Ana Colette Maurício, Arménio Coimbra Serra and Jorge Fernando Jordão Coelho

Covalent co-assembly between resilin-like polypeptide and peptide amphiphile into hydrogels with controlled nanostructure and improved mechanical properties

Babatunde O. Okesola, Hang K. Lau, Burak Derkus, Delali K. Boccorh, Yuanhao Wu, Alastair W. Wark, Kristi L. Kiick and Alvaro Mata

January 2020: Issue 1

Ligand targeting and peptide functionalized polymers as non-viral carriers for gene therapy

Khan Muhammad, Jing Zhao, Ihsan Ullah, Jintang Guo, Xiang-kui Ren and Yakai Feng

A triple chain polycationic peptide-mimicking amphiphile – efficient DNA-transfer without co-lipids

Shashank Reddy Pinnapireddy, Julia Giselbrecht, Boris Strehlow, Christopher Janich, Catharina Husteden, Annette Meister, Harald Loppnow, Daniel Sedding, Frank Erdmann, Gerd Hause, Gerald Brezesinski, Thomas Groth, Andreas Langner, Udo Bakowsky and Christian Wölk

Robust alginate/hyaluronic acid thiol–yne click-hydrogel scaffolds with superior mechanical performance and stability for load-bearing soft tissue engineering

Maria M. Pérez-Madrigal, Joshua E. Shaw, Maria C. Arno, Judith A. Hoyland, Stephen M. Richardson and Andrew P. Dove

December 2019: Issue 12

Length effects of cylindrical polymer brushes on their in vitro and in vivo properties

Zhengkui Zhang, Ling'e Zhang, Jiaojiao Zhao, Cheng Li, Wei Wu and Xiqun Jiang

A cell-penetrating peptide-assisted nanovaccine promotes antigen cross-presentation and anti-tumor immune response

Xiaoxuan Liu, Jiale Liu, Dan Liu, Yanfeng Han, Haiyan Xu, Lanxia Liu, Xigang Leng and Deling Kong

November 2019: Issue 11

Recent development in biodegradable nanovehicle delivery system-assisted immunotherapy

Zhenfu Wen, Fengyu Liu, Qing Chen, Yongqian Xu, Hongjuan Li and Shiguo Sun

Biomaterials and controlled release strategy for epithelial wound healing

Young Ju Son, John W. Tse, Yiran Zhou, Wei Mao, Evelyn K. F. Yim and Hyuk Sang Yoo

Analyzing the scaffold immune microenvironment using flow cytometry: practices, methods and considerations for immune analysis of biomaterials

Kaitlyn Sadtler and Jennifer H. Elisseeff

Yeast glucan particles enable intracellular protein delivery in Drosophila without compromising the immune system

Adam Bajgar, Ivan Saloň, Gabriela Krejčová, Tomáš Doležal, Marek Jindra and František Štěpánek

October 2019: Issue 10

Biopolymers as bone substitutes: a review

Anastasiia Kashirina, Yongtao Yao, Yanju Liu and Jinsong Leng

Physically crosslinked injectable hydrogels for long-term delivery of oncolytic adenoviruses for cancer treatment

Thai Minh Duy Le, Bo-Kyeong Jung, Yi Li, Huu Thuy Trang Duong, Thanh Loc Nguyen, Jin Woo Hong, Chae-Ok Yun and Doo Sung Lee

Enhancement of siRNA transfection by the optimization of fatty acid length and histidine content in the CPP

Ly Porosk, Piret Arukuusk, Kaisa Põhako, Kaido Kurrikoff, Kristina Kiisholts, Kärt Padari, Margus Pooga and Ülo Langel

September 2019: Issue 9

Cell derived extracellular vesicles: from isolation to functionalization and biomedical applications

Lian Zhu, Na Xu, Zhi-Ling Zhang and Tong-Cun Zhang

Efficient synthesis of amino acid polymers for protein stabilization

Bing Li, Yueming Wu, Wenjing Zhang, Si Zhang, Ning Shao, Weiwei Zhang, Lixin Zhang, Jian Fei, Yidong Dai and Runhui Liu

Preparation and evaluation of PAMAM dendrimer-based polymer gels physically cross-linked by hydrogen bonding

Hailin Cong, Liping Zhou, Qingye Meng, Yixin Zhang, Bing Yu, Youqing Shen and Hao Hu

August 2019: Issue 8

In situ bone regeneration enabled by a biodegradable hybrid double-network hydrogel

Yuanhao Zhang, Mingjiao Chen, Jia Tian, Ping Gu, Hongliang Cao, Xianqun Fan and Weian Zhang

A “self-accelerating endosomal escape” siRNA delivery nanosystem for significantly suppressing hyperplasia via blocking the ERK2 pathway

Bin Gao, Qiaoping Zhang, Xiaoyu Wang, Meiyu Wang, Xiang-kui Ren, Jintang Guo, Shihai Xia, Wencheng Zhang and Yakai Feng

July 2019: Issue 7

Recent progress in nanomaterials for nucleic acid delivery in cancer immunotherapy

Yeling Mei, Ruibo Wang, Wei Jiang, Yang Bo, Tengfei Zhang, Junlin Yu, Ming Cheng, Yunzi Wu, Jianjun Cheng and Wang Ma

June 2019: Issue 6

Modulating bioactivities of primary ammonium-tagged antimicrobial aliphatic polycarbonates by varying length, sequence and hydrophobic side chain structure

Kazuki Fukushima, Kohei Kishi, Keita Saito, Kazuki Takakuwa, Shunta Hakozaki and Shigekazu Yano

pH-Degradable imidazolium oligomers as antimicrobial materials with tuneable loss of activity

Yuan Yuan, Diane S. W. Lim, Hong Wu, Hongfang Lu, Yiran Zheng, Andrew C. A. Wan, Jackie Y. Ying and Yugen Zhang

Short, symmetric-helical peptides have narrow-spectrum activity with low resistance potential and high selectivity

Shuli Chou, Jiajun Wang, Lu Shang, Muhammad Usman Akhtar, Zhihua Wang, Baoming Shi, Xingjun Feng and Anshan Shan

May 2019: Issue 5

Host defense peptide mimicking poly-β-peptides with fast, potent and broad spectrum antibacterial activities

Qiang Zhang, Pengcheng Ma, Jiayang Xie, Si Zhang, Ximian Xiao, Zhongqian Qiao, Ning Shao, Min Zhou, Wenjing Zhang, Chengzhi Dai, Yuxin Qian, Fan Qi and Runhui Liu

April 2019: Issue 4

Biomaterials as vectors for the delivery of CRISPR–Cas9

Joon Eoh and Luo Gu

Janus nanoparticles in cancer diagnosis, therapy and theranostics

Yifan Zhang, Kai Huang, Jing Lin and Peng Huang

A multi-interpenetrating network (IPN) hydrogel with gelatin and silk fibroin

Shiwha Park, Seth Edwards, Shujie Hou, Ryann Boudreau, Rachel Yee and Kyung Jae Jeong

Disparate effects of PEG or albumin based surface modification on the uptake of nano- and micro-particles

Preeti Sharma, Devashish Sen, Varsha Neelakantan, Vinidhra Shankar and Siddharth Jhunjhunwala

Surface modification with PEG or albumin reduces phagocytic internalization of nano-particles but not micro-particles.

March 2019: Issue 3

Biomaterial interactions with the immune system

Christopher M. Jewell and Joel H. Collier

Harnessing the layer-by-layer assembly technique to design biomaterials vaccines for immune modulation in translational applications

Tan Tang, Tujun Weng, Hongxing Jia, Sida Luo, Ye Xu, Liuhe Li and Peipei Zhang

Identifying key barriers in cationic polymer gene delivery to human T cells

Brynn R. Olden, Emmeline Cheng, Yilong Cheng and Suzie H. Pun

Engineering release kinetics with polyelectrolyte multilayers to modulate TLR signaling and promote immune tolerance

Lisa H. Tostanoski, Haleigh B. Eppler, Boyan Xia, Xiangbin Zeng and Christopher M. Jewell

Degradable polyelectrolyle multilayers to enable controlled release of a regulatory toll-like receptor ligand to restrain inflammation and promote immune tolerance.

Advances in crosslinking strategies of biomedical hydrogels

Weikang Hu, Zijian Wang, Yu Xiao, Shengmin Zhang and Jianglin Wang

Polypeptide-affined interpenetrating hydrogels with tunable physical and mechanical properties

Farshad Oveissi, Sina Naficy, Thi Yen Loan Le, David F. Fletcher and Fariba Dehghani

February 2019: Issue 2

Tunable biomaterials from synthetic, sequence-controlled polymers

Mariah J. Austin and Adrianne M. Rosales

Intracellular delivery and biodistribution study of CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoprotein loaded bioreducible lipidoid nanoparticles

Yamin Li, Justin Bolinger, Yingjie Yu, Zachary Glass, Nicola Shi, Liu Yang, Ming Wang and Qiaobing Xu

January 2019: Issue 1

Polymeric micro- and nanoparticles for immune modulation

Elana Ben-Akiva, Savannah Est Witte, Randall A. Meyer, Kelly R. Rhodes and Jordan J. Green

Self-assembling peptides cross-linked with genipin: resilient hydrogels and self-standing electrospun scaffolds for tissue engineering applications

Raffaele Pugliese, Mahboubeh Maleki, Ronald N. Zuckermann and Fabrizio Gelain

Retraction: The next generation cell-penetrating peptide and carbon dot conjugated nano-liposome for transdermal delivery of curcumin

Neil Hammond

December 2018: Issue 12

Superior proapoptotic activity of curcumin-loaded mixed block copolymer micelles with mitochondrial targeting properties

Denitsa Momekova, Iva Ugrinova, Marta Slavkova, Georgi Momekov, Georgy Grancharov, Valeria Gancheva and Petar D. Petrov

DNA-mediated self-assembly of taste cells and neurons for taste signal transmission

Junsu Yun, Ann-Na Cho, Seung-Woo Cho and Yoon Sung Nam

November 2018: Issue 11

Mitochondria: promising organelle targets for cancer diagnosis and treatment

Xiao-Shuang Hou, Huai-Song Wang, Benson Peter Mugaka, Gong-Jun Yang and Ya Ding

Unimicellar hyperstars as multi-antigen cancer nanovaccines displaying clustered epitopes of immunostimulating peptides

Hamilton Kakwere, Elizabeth S. Ingham, Riley Allen, Lisa M. Mahakian, Sarah M. Tam, Hua Zhang, Matthew T. Silvestrini, Jamal S. Lewis and Katherine W. Ferrara

Self-healing, stretchable and robust interpenetrating network hydrogels

Laura J. Macdougall, Maria M. Pérez-Madrigal, Joshua E. Shaw, Maria Inam, Judith A. Hoyland, Rachel O'Reilly, Stephen M. Richardson and Andrew P. Dove

Interpenetrating network gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) and pectin-g-PCL hydrogels with tunable properties for tissue engineering

Mohammad M. Fares, Ehsan Shirzaei Sani, Roberto Portillo Lara, Rhayza B. Oliveira, Ali Khademhosseini and Nasim Annabi

pH-Sensitive micelles with mitochondria-targeted and aggregation-induced emission characterization: synthesis, cytotoxicity and biological applications

Jieming Li, Yan Liu, Huilan Li, Wei Shi, Xinzhou Bi, Qianqian Qiu, Bo Zhang, Wenlong Huang and Hai Qian

A potent, minimally invasive and simple strategy of enhancing intracellular targeted delivery of Tat peptide-conjugated quantum dots: organic solvent-based permeation enhancer

Xueqing Yong, Xuan Yang, Steven R. Emory, Jun Wang, Jie Dai, Xiaoya Yu, Ling Mei, Jinbing Xie and Gang Ruan

October 2018: Issue 10

Cationic cell penetrating peptide modified SNARE protein VAMP8 as free chains for gene delivery

Baizhu Chen and Chi Wu

September 2018: Issue 9

A novel high-strength photoluminescent hydrogel for tissue engineering

Hui Zhi, Xu Fei, Jing Tian, Liyuan Zhao, Haiyang Zhang, Muzi Jing, Longquan Xu, Yi Wang and Yao Li

August 2018: Issue 8

No relevant articles.

July 2018: Issue 7

No relevant articles.

June 2018: Issue 6

No relevant articles.

May 2018: Issue 5

Bio-inspired drug delivery systems: an emerging platform for targeted cancer therapy

Gella Maelys Ngandeu Neubi, Yaw Opoku-Damoah, Xiaochen Gu, Yue Han, Jianping Zhou and Yang Ding

Macrocycle-wrapped polyethylenimine for gene delivery with reduced cytotoxicity

Qiaoxian Huang, Shengke Li, Yuan-Fu Ding, Hang Yin, Lian-Hui Wang and Ruibing Wang

Albumin as a “Trojan Horse” for polymeric nanoconjugate transendothelial transport across tumor vasculatures for improved cancer targeting

Qian Yin, Li Tang, Kaimin Cai, Xujuan Yang, Lichen Yin, Yanfeng Zhang, Lawrence W. Dobrucki, William G. Helferich, Timothy M. Fan and Jianjun Cheng

December 2017: Issue 12

Self-assembly of peptide amphiphiles for drug delivery: the role of peptide primary and secondary structures

Zhenhua Song, Xing Chen, Xinru You, Keqing Huang, Arvind Dhinakar, Zhipeng Gu and Jun Wu

November 2017: Issue 11

Peptides, polypeptides and peptide–polymer hybrids as nucleic acid carriers

Marya Ahmed

Engineering highly swellable dual-responsive protein-based injectable hydrogels: the effects of molecular structure and composition in vivo

V. H. Giang Phan, Thavasyappan Thambi, Bong Sup Kim, Dai Phu Huynh and Doo Sung Lee

Novel poly(vinyl alcohol)-based amphiphilic nanogels by non-covalent boric acid crosslinking of polymeric micelles

Hen Moshe, Yuval Davizon, Maya Menaker Raskin and Alejandro Sosnik

October 2017: Issue 10

Design and characterization of hydrogel nanoparticles with tunable network characteristics for sustained release of a VEGF-mimetic peptide

Daniel A. Young, Marja B. Pimentel, Luana Dias Lima, Aline F. Custodio, Wesley C. Lo, Szu-Chun Chen, Fouad Teymour and Georgia Papavasiliou

In vitro and in vivo analysis of visible light crosslinkable gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogels

Iman Noshadi, Seonki Hong, Kelly E. Sullivan, Ehsan Shirzaei Sani, Roberto Portillo-Lara, Ali Tamayol, Su Ryon Shin, Albert E. Gao, Whitney L. Stoppel, Lauren D. Black III, Ali Khademhosseini and Nasim Annabi

September 2017: Issue 9

ε-Polylysine-based thermo-responsive adsorbents for immunoglobulin adsorption–desorption under mild conditions

Masashi Maruyama and Keisuke Shibuya

Synthesis of controlled, high-molecular weight poly(L-glutamic acid) brush polymers

Ryan Baumgartner, Diane Kuai and Jianjun Cheng

August 2017: Issue 8

Recent progress in nanomedicine-based combination cancer therapy using a site-specific co-delivery strategy

Shiyang Shen, Meng Liu, Teng Li, Shiqi Lin and Ran Mo

Supramolecular surface functionalization via catechols for the improvement of cell–material interactions

S. Spaans, P. P. K. H. Fransen, B. D. Ippel, D. F. A. de Bont, H. M. Keizer, N. A. M. Bax, C. V. C. Bouten and P. Y. W. Dankers

The influence of tumor-induced immune dysfunction on the immune cell distribution of gold nanoparticles in vivo

Chenxi Wu, Hongmei Chen, Xuan Wu, Xiuxiu Cong, Li Wang, Yucai Wang, Yongguang Yang, Wei Li and Tianmeng Sun

Self-assembly of amphiphilic tripeptides with sequence-dependent nanostructure

Jugal Kishore Sahoo, Calvin Nazareth, Michael A. VandenBerg and Matthew J. Webber

July 2017: Issue 7

Biodegradable injectable polymer systems exhibiting a longer and controllable duration time of the gel state

Yasuyuki Yoshida, Hiroki Takai, Keisyke Kawahara, Shintaro Mitsumune, Kazuyuki Takata, Akinori Kuzuya and Yuichi Ohya

June 2017: Issue 6

Optimization of a polydopamine (PD)-based coating method and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrates for improved mouse embryonic stem cell (ESC) pluripotency maintenance and cardiac differentiation

Jiayin Fu, Yon Jin Chuah, Wee Tong Ang, Nan Zheng and Dong-An Wang

May 2017: Issue 5

Cyclopeptide scaffolds in carbohydrate-based synthetic vaccines

Carlo Pifferi, Nathalie Berthet and Olivier Renaudet

Mustard-inspired delivery shuttle for enhanced blood–brain barrier penetration and effective drug delivery in glioma therapy

Nan Wang, Pei Sun, Mingming Lv, Gangsheng Tong, Xin Jin and Xinyuan Zhu

April 2017: Issue 4

Amphiphilic polymers formed from ring-opening polymerization: a strategy for the enhancement of gene delivery

Yi-Mei Zhang, Zheng Huang, Ji Zhang, Wan-Xia Wu, Yan-Hong Liu and Xiao-Qi Yu

March 1st, 2017, Issue 3

Molecular imprinting polymers and their composites: a promising material for diverse applications

Shabi Abbas Zaidi

Carrageenan activates monocytes via type-specific binding with interleukin-8: an implication for design of immuno-active biomaterials

Weng-I Chan, Guangpan Zhang, Xin Li, Chung-Hang Leung, Dik-Lung Ma, Lei Dong and Chunming Wang

Backbone-modified oligonucleotides for tuning the cellular uptake behaviour of spherical nucleic acids

Woo Chul Song, Kyoung-Ran Kim, Miri Park, Kyung Eun Lee and Dae-Ro Ahn

Targeting peptide functionalized liposomes towards aminopeptidase N for precise tumor diagnosis and therapy

Xiangqian Jia, Qiuju Han, Zihua Wang, Yixia Qian, Yunhong Jia, Weizhi Wang and Zhiyuan Hu

Star-shaped copolymer grafted PEI and REDV as a gene carrier to improve migration of endothelial cells

Juan Lv, Xuefang Hao, Qian Li, Mary Akpanyung, Abdelilah Nejjari, Agnaldo Luis Neve, Xiangkui Ren, Yakai Feng, Changcan Shi and Wencheng Zhang

The influence of surface modified poly(L-lactic acid) films on the differentiation of human monocytes into macrophages

Clara R. Correia, Joana Gaifem, Mariana B. Oliveira, Ricardo Silvestre and João F. Mano

February 2017: Issue 2

Polyaspartamide-based graft copolymers encapsulating iron oxide nanoparticles for imaging and fluorescence labelling of immune cells

Minsun Kim, Seung Won Shin, Cheol Won Lim, Jaeyun Kim, Soong Ho Um and Dukjoon Kim

Effects of ovalbumin protein nanoparticle vaccine size and coating on dendritic cell processing

Timothy Z. Chang, Samantha S. Stadmiller, Erika Staskevicius and Julie A. Champion

Electrochemical manipulation of cell populations supported by biodegradable polymeric nanosheets for cell transplantation therapy

Jin Suzuki, Nobuhiro Nagai, Matsuhiko Nishizawa, Toshiaki Abe and Hirokazu Kaji

Biorthogonal click chemistry on poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)-polymericparticles

Jason Olejniczak, Guillaume Collet, Viet Anh Nguyen Huu, Minnie Chan, Sangeun Lee and Adah Almutairi

Insight into the interactions between nanoparticles and cells

Jingchao Li, Hongli Mao, Naoki Kawazoe and Guoping Chen

January 2017: Issue 1

A database on the stability of silver and gold nanostructures for applications in biology and biomolecular sciences

Hasitha de Alwis Weerasekera, María Jazmín Silvero, Daliane Regis Correa da Silva and Juan C. Scaiano

Erythrocyte membrane based cationic polymer-mcDNA complexes as an efficient gene delivery system

Ping Huang, Jing Zhao, Chiju Wei, Xiaohu Hou, Pingzhang Chen, Yan Tan, Cheng-Yi He, Zhiyong Wang and Zhi-Ying Chen

Poly(glycoamidoamine) brush nanomaterials for systemic siRNA delivery in vivo

X. Luo, W. Wang, J. R. Dorkin, O. Veiseh, P. H. Chang, I. Abutbul-Ionita, D. Danino, R. Langer, D. G. Anderson and Y. Dong

December 2016: Issue 12

Peptides conjugated to silver nanoparticles in biomedicine – a “value-added” phenomenon

Suhas Ramesh, Marcelo Grijalva, Alexis Debut, Beatriz G. de la Torre, Fernando Albericio and Luis H. Cumbal

November 2016: Issue 11

PEG-based hydrogels prepared by catalyst-free thiolyne addition and their post-antibacterial modification

Xiao Yan Cai, Jun Zhi Li, Ning Ning Li, Jiu Cun Chen, En-Tang Kang and Li Qun Xu

Dual-component collagenous peptide/reactive oligomer hydrogels as potential nerve guidance materials – from characterization to functionalization

C. Kohn, J. M. Klemens, C. Kascholke, N. S. Murthy, J. Kohn, M. Brandenburger and M. C. Hacker

Recent trends on hydrogel based drug delivery systems for infectious diseases

Arti Vashist, Ajeet Kaushik, Atul Vashist, Rahul Dev Jayant, Asahi Tomitaka, Sharif Ahmad, Y. K. Gupta and Madhavan Nair

October 2016: Issue 10

Cellular uptake of drug loaded spider silk particles

Martina B. Schierling, Elena Doblhofer and Thomas Scheibel

Temperature-responsive in situ nanoparticle hydrogels based on hydrophilic pendant cyclic ether modified PEG-PCL-PEG

Zujian Feng, Junqiang Zhao, Yin Li, Shuxin Xu, Junhui Zhou, Jianhua Zhang, Liandong Deng and Anjie Dong

Different oligoarginine modifications alter endocytic pathways and subcellular trafficking of polymeric nanoparticle

Junli Zhou and Ying Chau

Graphene oxide and sulfonated polyanion co-doped hydrogel films for dual-layered membranes with superior hemocompatibility and antibacterial activity

Chao He, Zhen-Qiang Shi, Chong Cheng, Hua-Qing Lu, Mi Zhou, Shu-Dong Sun and Chang-Sheng Zhao

September 2016: Issue 9

Recent progress in nanomaterials for gene delivery applications

Erhan Keles, Yang Song, Dan Du, Wen-Ji Dong and Yuehe Lin

Chondroitin sulfate derived theranostic nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery

Oommen P. Varghese, Jianping Liu, Karthi Sundaram, Jöns Hilborn and Oommen P. Oommen

Biophysical and chemical handles to control the size of DNA nanoparticles produced by rolling circle amplification

So Yeon Lee, Kyoung-Ran Kim, Duhee Bang, Se Won Bae, Hak Joong Kim and Dae-Ro Ahn

Heparin-based hydrogels with tunable sulfation & degradation for anti-inflammatory small molecule delivery

Yifeng Peng, Liane E. Tellier and Johnna S. Temenoff

The effects of poly(zwitterions)s versus poly(ethylene glycol) surface coatings on the biodistribution of protein nanoparticles

Jing Wang, Shanmei Yuan, Yajun Zhang, Wei Wu, Yong Hu and Xiqun Jiang

Identification of polymer surface adsorbed proteins implicated in pluripotent human embryonic stem cell expansion

Moamen Hammad, Wei Rao, James G. W. Smith, Daniel G. Anderson, Robert Langer, Lorraine E. Young, David A. Barrett, Martyn C. Davies, Chris Denning and Morgan R. Alexander

August 2016: Issue 8

No relevant articles.

July 2016: Issue 7

Enhanced non-vitreous cryopreservation of immortalized and primary cells by ice-growth inhibiting polymers

Robert C. Deller, Jeffrey E. Pessin, Manu Vatish, Daniel A. Mitchell and Matthew I. Gibson

June 2016: Issue 6

Influence of cell size on cellular uptake of gold nanoparticles

Xinlong Wang, Xiaohong Hu, Jingchao Li, Adriana C. Mulero Russe, Naoki Kawazoe, Yingnan Yang and Guoping Chen

Fc-fusion mimetics

H. Khalili, P. T. Khaw and S. Brocchini

Nitric oxide-generating L-cysteine-grafted graphene film as a blood-contacting biomaterial

Zhen Du, Ruixia Dou, Mian Zu, Xueying Liu, Wenyan Yin, Yuliang Zhao, Jingbo Chen, Liang Yan and Zhanjun Gu

From structures to functions: insights into exosomes as promising drug delivery vehicles

Jinghua Ren, Wenshan He, Lifen Zheng and Hongwei Duan

May 2016: Issue 5

Design of nanomaterial based systems for novel vaccine development

Liu Yang, Wen Li, Michael Kirberger, Wenzhen Liao and Jiaoyan Ren

April 2016: Issue 4

Biodegradable liposome-encapsulated hydrogels for biomedical applications: a marriage of convenience

Santiago Grijalvo, Judith Mayr, Ramon Eritja and David Díaz Díaz

Shape matters when engineering mesoporous silica-based nanomedicines

Nanjing Hao, Laifeng Li and Fangqiong Tang

March 2016: Issue 3

Stimuli-responsive dendrimers in drug delivery

Hui Wang, Quan Huang, Hong Chang, Jianru Xiao and Yiyun Cheng

The next generation cell-penetrating peptide and carbon dot conjugated nano-liposome for transdermal delivery of curcumin

Santanu Patra, Ekta Roy, Rashmi Madhuri and Prashant K. Sharma

Tri-membrane nanoparticles produced by combining liposome fusion and a novel patchwork of bicelles to overcome endosomal and nuclear membrane barriers to cargo delivery

Asako Yamada, Asako Mitsueda, Mahadi Hasan, Miho Ueda, Susumu Hama, Shota Warashina, Takashi Nakamura, Hideyoshi Harashima and Kentaro Kogure

February 2016: Issue 2

Nanostructures for protein drug delivery

Juliana de Almeida Pachioni-Vasconcelos, André Moreni Lopes, Alexsandra Conceição Apolinário, Johanna Karina Valenzuela-Oses, Juliana Souza Ribeiro Costa, Laura de Oliveira Nascimento, Adalberto Pessoa, Leandro Ramos Souza Barbosa and Carlota de Oliveira Rangel-Yagui

Strategies for transporting nanoparticles across the blood-brain barrier

Tian-Tian Zhang, Wen Li, Guanmin Meng, Pei Wang and Wenzhen Liao

January 2016: Issue 1

Stimuli-responsive polymersomes for cancer therapy

Thavasyappan Thambi, Jae Hyung Park and Doo Sung Lee

December 2015: Issue 12

Layer-by-layer assemblies for antibacterial applications

Xiaoying Zhu and Xian Jun Loh

Biomaterials for mRNA delivery

Mohammad Ariful Islam, Emma K. G. Reesor, Yingjie Xu, Harshal R. Zope, Bruce R. Zetter and Jinjun Shi

November 2015: Issue 11

Systematic adjustment of charge densities and size of polyglycerol amines reduces cytotoxic effects and enhances cellular uptake

Markus Hellmund, Katharina Achazi, Falko Neumann, Bala N. S. Thota, Nan Ma and Rainer Haag

Multi-stage, charge conversional, stimuli-responsive nanogels for therapeutic protein delivery

Xuejiao Zhang, Kai Zhang and Rainer Haag

October 2015: Issue 10

Smart branched polymer drug conjugates as nano-sized drug delivery systems

A. Duro-Castano, J. Movellan and M. J. Vicent

A survey of state-of-the-art surface chemistries to minimize fouling from human and animal biofluids

Christophe Blaszykowski, Sonia Sheikh and Michael Thompson

Thermoresponsive hydrogel maintains the mouse embryonic stem cell “naïve” pluripotency phenotype

Christian Mangani, Annamaria Lilienkampf, Marcia Roy, Paul A. de Sousa and Mark Bradley

Electroactive polymer–peptide conjugates for adhesive biointerfaces

Silvana Maione, Ana M. Gil, Georgina Fabregat, Luis J. del Valle, Jordi Triguero, Adele Laurent, Denis Jacquemin, Francesc Estrany, Ana I. Jiménez, David Zanuy, Carlos Cativiela and Carlos Alemán

September 2015: Issue 9

Anti-angiogenic nanotherapy via active targeting systems to tumors and adipose tissue vasculature

Yu Sakurai, Kazuaki Kajimoto and Hideyoshi Harashima

Nanoscopic leg irons: harvesting of polymer-stabilized membrane proteins with antibody-functionalized silica nanoparticles

Thomas Zapf, Christian Zafiu, Christoph Zaba, Cherng-Wen Darren Tan, Walter Hunziker and Eva-Kathrin Sinner

August 2015: Issue 8

Polyactives: controlled and sustained bioactive release via hydrolytic degradation

N. D. Stebbins, J. J. Faig, W. Yu, R. Guliyev and K. E. Uhrich

Mixed poly(dopamine)/poly(L-lysine) (composite) coatings: from assembly to interaction with endothelial cells

Yan Zhang, Martin E. Lynge, Boon M. Teo, Ryosuke Ogaki and Brigitte Städler

July 2015 Issue 7

Supramolecular hydrogels: synthesis, properties and their biomedical applications