Overall Structure Construction of an Intervertebral Disk Based on Highly Anisotropic Wood Hydrogel Composite Materials with Mechanical Matching and Buckling Buffering

A Strong, Tough, and Scalable Structural Material from Fast‐Growing Bamboo

(2020) Zhihan Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Wood-Derived Hybrid Scaffold with Highly Anisotropic Features on Mechanics and Liquid Transport toward Cell Migration and Alignment

(2020) Jinming Liu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Hybrid Materials from Ultrahigh‐Inorganic‐Content Mineral Plastic Hydrogels: Arbitrarily Shapeable, Strong, and Tough

(2020) Xiaotong Zhang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Highly Elastic Hydrated Cellulosic Materials with Durable Compressibility and Tunable Conductivity

(2020) Chaoji Chen et al.   ACS Nano

Injectable in situ forming kartogenin-loaded chitosan hydrogel with tunable rheological properties for cartilage tissue engineering

(2020) Dorsa Dehghan-Baniani et al.   COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES

Scalable aesthetic transparent wood for energy efficient buildings

(2020) Ruiyu Mi et al.   Nature Communications

Bio-inspired cellulose reinforced anisotropic composite hydrogel with zone-dependent complex mechanical adaptability and cell recruitment characteristics

(2020) Dingqian Wang et al.   COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING

Intervertebral disc regeneration with an adipose mesenchymal stem cell-derived tissue-engineered construct in a rat nucleotomy model

(2019) Hiroyuki Ishiguro et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Graphene oxide containing self-assembling peptide hybrid hydrogels as a potential 3D injectable cell delivery platform for intervertebral disc repair applications

(2019) Cosimo Ligorio et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

In vitro and in vivo evaluation of an electrospun-aligned microfibrous implant for Annulus fibrosus repair

(2019) Maude Gluais et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Highly Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Fabrication of Robust, Programmable, and Biocompatible Anisotropic, All‐Cellulose, Wrinkle‐Patterned Hydrogels for Cell Alignment

(2019) Jie Zou et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Clear, Strong, and Thermally Insulated Transparent Wood for Energy Efficient Windows

(2019) Ruiyu Mi et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Stretchable, tough, self-recoverable, and cytocompatible chitosan/cellulose nanocrystals/polyacrylamide hybrid hydrogels

(2019) Weijuan Huang et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Importance of Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Diverse Chains and Cross-Linking Density for Cell Proliferation, Aging, and Death

(2019) Ting Wang et al.   LANGMUIR

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(2019) Tobias Hanrath   NATURE MATERIALS

Single-digit-micrometer thickness wood speaker

(2019) Wentao Gan et al.   Nature Communications

Tough Hydrogels with Fast, Strong, and Reversible Underwater Adhesion Based on a Multiscale Design

(2018) Ping Rao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A green and environmental benign method to extract cellulose nanocrystal by ball mill assisted solid acid hydrolysis

(2018) Kaili Song et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Mechanical viability of a thermoplastic elastomer hydrogel as a soft tissue replacement material

(2018) Kristine M. Fischenich et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

3D bioprinting of cell-laden scaffolds for intervertebral disc regeneration

(2018) Duo Hu et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

Frequency-dependent shear properties of annulus fibrosus and nucleus pulposus by magnetic resonance elastography

(2018) P.F. Beauchemin et al.   NMR IN BIOMEDICINE

Injectable antibacterial conductive nanocomposite cryogels with rapid shape recovery for noncompressible hemorrhage and wound healing

(2018) Xin Zhao et al.   Nature Communications

Muscle-Inspired Highly Anisotropic, Strong, Ion-Conductive Hydrogels

(2018) Weiqing Kong et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Biomechanics of the human intervertebral disc: A review of testing techniques and results

(2017) N. Newell et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Reverse Reconstruction and Bioprinting of Bacterial Cellulose-Based Functional Total Intervertebral Disc for Therapeutic Implantation

(2017) Junchuan Yang et al.   Small

Mechanically Viscoelastic Properties of Cellulose Nanocrystals Skeleton Reinforced Hierarchical Composite Hydrogels

(2016) Jun Yang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Highly Anisotropic, Highly Transparent Wood Composites

(2016) Mingwei Zhu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Wood-Derived Materials for Green Electronics, Biological Devices, and Energy Applications

(2016) Hongli Zhu et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Effective modulus of the human intervertebral disc and its effect on vertebral bone stress

(2016) Haisheng Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Molecular Understanding and Structural-Based Design of Polyacrylamides and Polyacrylates as Antifouling Materials

(2016) Hong Chen et al.   LANGMUIR

Mechanically Stiff Nanocomposite Hydrogels at Ultralow Nanoparticle Content

(2015) Manish K. Jaiswal et al.   ACS Nano

A combined biomaterial and cellular approach for annulus fibrosus rupture repair

(2015) Tatiana Pirvu et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Design of Cellulose Nanocrystals Template-Assisted Composite Hydrogels: Insights from Static to Dynamic Alignment

(2015) Jun Yang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Bioengineering a Multicomponent Spinal Motion Segment Construct-A 3D Model for Complex Tissue Engineering

(2014) Tsz Kit Chik et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Photochemically crosslinked collagen annulus plug: A potential solution solving the leakage problem of cell-based therapies for disc degeneration

(2013) T.K. Chik et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

A Robust, One-Pot Synthesis of Highly Mechanical and Recoverable Double Network Hydrogels Using Thermoreversible Sol-Gel Polysaccharide

(2013) Qiang Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Biomimetic adhesive containing nanocomposite hydrogel with enhanced materials properties

(2013) Sarah Skelton et al.   Soft Matter

Injectable Doubly Cross-Linked Microgels for Improving the Mechanical Properties of Degenerated Intervertebral Discs

(2012) Amir H. Milani et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Cartilage-like mechanical properties of poly (ethylene glycol)-diacrylate hydrogels

(2012) Quynhhoa T. Nguyen et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Hierarchically Designed Agarose and Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Interpenetrating Network Hydrogels for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

(2010) Brandon J. DeKosky et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART C-METHODS

A technique for production of nanocrystalline cellulose with a narrow size distribution

(2009) Wen Bai et al.   CELLULOSE

Nanofibrous biologic laminates replicate the form and function of the annulus fibrosus

(2009) Nandan L. Nerurkar et al.   NATURE MATERIALS