Themed collection 10th Anniversary: Dedicated Authors

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Feature Article

Blood compatible materials: state of the art

Approaches to thromboresistant materials are discussed including passivation; incorporation and/or release of anticoagulants, antiplatelet agents, thrombolytic agents; and mimicry of the vascular endothelium.

Graphical abstract: Blood compatible materials: state of the art
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Feature Article

Hydrogels for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Injectable hydrogels have become an incredibly prolific area of research in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, because of their high water content, mechanical similarity to natural tissues, and ease of surgical implantation, hydrogels are at the forefront of biomedical scaffold and drug carrier design.

Graphical abstract: Hydrogels for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Feature Article

Chitosan-based scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

Chitosan bone scaffolds including porous sponges, nanofibers and hydrogels are highlighted along with scaffold fabrications and the influence of processing parameters on scaffold properties.

Graphical abstract: Chitosan-based scaffolds for bone tissue engineering
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Feature Article

Injectable biodegradable hydrogels: progress and challenges

Over the past decades, injectable hydrogels have emerged as promising biomaterials because of their biocompatibility, excellent permeability, minimal invasion, and easy integration into surgical procedures.

Graphical abstract: Injectable biodegradable hydrogels: progress and challenges
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Open Access Feature Article

Hydrogen-bonds in molecular solids – from biological systems to organic electronics

Hydrogen-bonding (H-bonding) is a relatively strong, highly directional, and specific noncovalent interaction present in many organic molecules, and notably is responsible for supramolecular ordering in biological systems. This article aims to highlight recent work on the application of nature-inspired H-bonded organic molecules in organic electronic devices.

Graphical abstract: Hydrogen-bonds in molecular solids – from biological systems to organic electronics
From the themed collection: Carbon Bioelectronics
Feature Article

Cryogels for biomedical applications

This review highlights recent advances in cryogelation techniques and starting materials that can be utilised to synthesise biocompatible and biologically relevant cryogels as well as discussing physicochemical characterisation techniques for these materials. It also discusses emerging trends in the application of cryogels, particularly as 3D ECM mimicking scaffolds for cell culture and tissue engineering.

Graphical abstract: Cryogels for biomedical applications
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Feature Article

Carbon “quantum” dots for optical bioimaging

Carbon “quantum” dots and their uses as high-performance yet nontoxic fluorescence agents for optical bioimaging are highlighted and discussed.

Graphical abstract: Carbon “quantum” dots for optical bioimaging
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Review Article

Chitosan-based smart hybrid materials: a physico-chemical perspective

An overview of the properties of chitosan-based materials: polyelectrolyte complexes, gels, chitosan-surfactant complexes, smart coatings, organic–inorganic hybrids.

Graphical abstract: Chitosan-based smart hybrid materials: a physico-chemical perspective
Review Article

Substituted hydroxyapatite coatings of bone implants

This review is a comprehensive overview and analysis of the most important advances in the field of substituted hydroxyapatite coatings.

Graphical abstract: Substituted hydroxyapatite coatings of bone implants
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Review Article

The great escape: how cationic polyplexes overcome the endosomal barrier

Endo-lysosomal escape strategies of cationic polymer-mediated gene delivery at a glance.

Graphical abstract: The great escape: how cationic polyplexes overcome the endosomal barrier
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Review Article

Wearable and flexible sensors for user-interactive health-monitoring devices

The development of flexible and wearable healthcare devices facilitates a real-time monitoring of body activities as well as detecting various biosignals, which provided useful information to manage one's health condition for personal health monitoring.

Graphical abstract: Wearable and flexible sensors for user-interactive health-monitoring devices
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Review Article

Application of semiconductor quantum dots in bioimaging and biosensing

In this review we present new concepts and recent progress in the application of semiconductor quantum dots (QD) as labels in two important areas of biology, bioimaging and biosensing.

Graphical abstract: Application of semiconductor quantum dots in bioimaging and biosensing
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Review Article

Optical nanoprobes for biomedical applications: shining a light on upconverting and near-infrared emitting nanoparticles for imaging, thermal sensing, and photodynamic therapy

Shining a light on spectrally converting lanthanide (Ln3+)-doped nanoparticles: progress, trends, and challenges in Ln3+-nanoprobes for near-infrared bioimaging, nanothermometry, and photodynamic therapy.

Graphical abstract: Optical nanoprobes for biomedical applications: shining a light on upconverting and near-infrared emitting nanoparticles for imaging, thermal sensing, and photodynamic therapy
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Review Article

Thermo-responsive polymers and their application as smart biomaterials

This review summarises smart thermo-responsive polymeric materials with reversible and ‘on–off’ remotely switchable properties for a wide range of biomedical and biomaterials applications.

Graphical abstract: Thermo-responsive polymers and their application as smart biomaterials
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Review Article

Antibacterial activity of graphene-based materials

Current efforts in the formulation of graphene-based nanocomposites with antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities in fighting against bacterial targets are reviewed.

Graphical abstract: Antibacterial activity of graphene-based materials
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Open Access Review Article

Non-toxic, non-biocide-release antifouling coatings based on molecular structure design for marine applications

Antifouling (AF) coatings bring economic benefits but raise environmental and health concerns. Non-toxic, non-biocide-release AF strategies are reviewed according to “detachment of biofoulants” and “prevention of attachment” approaches. Chemical and physical aspects of AF mechanisms and new amphiphilic, superhydrophilic and topographic AF strategies are discussed.

Graphical abstract: Non-toxic, non-biocide-release antifouling coatings based on molecular structure design for marine applications
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Open Access Communication

Nanoscale patterning of polymers on DNA origami

Structurally precise biohybrid nanomaterials were created by grafting various polymers to DNA with high conversions under ambient conditions. They are patterned onto DNA origami nanostructures to form customizable surface contours.

Graphical abstract: Nanoscale patterning of polymers on DNA origami
Communication

Water-soluble and phosphorus-containing carbon dots with strong green fluorescence for cell labeling

Microwave-assisted pyrolysis of natural phosphorus-rich phytic acid under the passivation of diamine offers a facile way to synthesize carbon dots with strong green fluorescence for bioimaging and biolabeling.

Graphical abstract: Water-soluble and phosphorus-containing carbon dots with strong green fluorescence for cell labeling
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
Paper

In situ engineering of Au–Ag alloy embedded PEDOT nanohybrids at a solvent/non-solvent interface for the electrochemical enzyme-free detection of histamine

In situ polymerization at a bi-solvent interface produced Au–Ag alloy embedded PEDOT nanohybrids for non-enzymatic histamine detection. The composite demonstrated practical viability by detecting histamine produced by sub-cultured human neural cells.

Graphical abstract: In situ engineering of Au–Ag alloy embedded PEDOT nanohybrids at a solvent/non-solvent interface for the electrochemical enzyme-free detection of histamine
From the themed collection: #RSCPoster Conference
Open Access Paper

Boron clusters (ferrabisdicarbollides) shaping the future as radiosensitizers for multimodal (chemo/radio/PBFR) therapy of glioblastoma

The cellular damage response induced by γ-rays, X-rays and proton beams suggest these type of radiations are promising therapeutic modalities against resistant glioblastoma tumours when combined to stable metallacarboranes as radiosensitizers and PBFR.

Graphical abstract: Boron clusters (ferrabisdicarbollides) shaping the future as radiosensitizers for multimodal (chemo/radio/PBFR) therapy of glioblastoma
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Transition metallo-curcumin complexes: a new hope for endometriosis?

The metallo-curcumin complexes, copper–curcumin and nickel–curcumin, are promising anti-endometriotic agents due to their high antioxidant activity, selective cytotoxicity and active transport mediated accumulation in endometriotic cells.

Graphical abstract: Transition metallo-curcumin complexes: a new hope for endometriosis?
Open Access Paper

Metal-phenolic networks as tuneable spore coat mimetics

Bacillus subtilis are probiotic microbes that are difficult to formulate when they are not in their spore form. Using self-assembling coatings, these cells were successfully protected during the freeze-drying process.

Graphical abstract: Metal-phenolic networks as tuneable spore coat mimetics
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Surfaces with antifouling-antimicrobial dual function via immobilization of lysozyme on zwitterionic polymer thin films

A novel coating with antifouling and antimicrobial dual functions was fabricated to prevent transmission and spread of infectious diseases.

Graphical abstract: Surfaces with antifouling-antimicrobial dual function via immobilization of lysozyme on zwitterionic polymer thin films
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Construction of a stereocomplex between poly(D-lactide) grafted hydroxyapatite and poly(L-lactide): toward a bioactive composite scaffold with enhanced interfacial bonding

Hydroxyapatite (HAP) grafted with poly( D-lactide) (PDLA) was incorporated into poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) to construct a stereocomplex, thus improving the interfacial bonding between PLLA and HAP like a zip-lock structure in a scaffold.

Graphical abstract: Construction of a stereocomplex between poly(d-lactide) grafted hydroxyapatite and poly(l-lactide): toward a bioactive composite scaffold with enhanced interfacial bonding
From the themed collection: Journal of Materials Chemistry B HOT Papers
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Screening of bio-compatible metal–organic frameworks as potential drug carriers using Monte Carlo simulations

GCMC simulation is the workhorse for simulating adsorption phenomena, explaining and predicting new experimental results for drug delivery applications.

Graphical abstract: Screening of bio-compatible metal–organic frameworks as potential drug carriers using Monte Carlo simulations
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
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Luminescent S-doped carbon dots: an emergent architecture for multimodal applications

S-doped carbon quantum dots have been synthesized and employed as a luminescent probe for multimodal applications.

Graphical abstract: Luminescent S-doped carbon dots: an emergent architecture for multimodal applications
From the themed collection: 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles
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PEGylated reduced graphene oxide as a superior ssRNA delivery system

The current work demonstrates that PEGylated reduced graphene oxide (PEG–RGO) has superior ssRNA loading and intracellular delivery capability, compared with its unreduced derivative, the widely studied PEG–GO.

Graphical abstract: PEGylated reduced graphene oxide as a superior ssRNA delivery system
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About this collection

As part of the celebrations for Journal of Materials Chemistry B’s 10th Anniversary in 2023, we wanted to celebrate some of our most dedicated authors that have published in the journal over the last 10 years.

This online collection features articles and reviews from some of our most frequent authors since the launch of the journal in 2013. This collection has been curated in honour of those authors who have provided truly impactful, timeless, and high-quality research articles and reviews, time and time again. The featured articles have been handpicked from a decade of exceptional work, provided by our dedicated, long time authors for Journal of Materials Chemistry B.

All articles in the collection are free to read until 27th October 2023

Why not check out our most popular articles in Journal of Materials Chemistry A and B in celebration of their 10th anniversary?

Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10 th Anniversary: Most popular articles

Journal of Materials Chemistry C 10th Anniversary: Most popular articles

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