Perspective

Advanced characterizing technologies are of critical importance in enabling the revealing of materials regarding their structural and chemical information, eventually establishing the correlations between microstructures and properties at the multiscale levels. Abstract: Exploration of science and technologies represents human’s thirst for new knowledge and new life. Presently, we are in a stage of transferring the …

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This perspective focuses on the overview of 4D printing, its history, and both wearable and implantable physiological sensing solutions. The current challenges faced in this field, translational research, and its future prospects are explored. All of these aims highlight key areas of attention that can be applied by future researchers to fully transform 4D printed …

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Leaking plasma from blood vessels triggered by COVID-19 infection plays a crucial role in causing pulmonary atelectasis (lung collapse), which fills up the lung air sacs with liquid and the lung becomes deflated. If sufficiently large areas of the lung tissue become deflated by this problem, the lung tissue can no longer take enough air …

The impact of the hypoxia-VEGF-vascular permeability on COVID-19-infected patients Read More »

We present an overview of common causes of bone defects, the unmet clinical needs, and the utility of biomaterials and nanotechnology to facilitate bone regeneration. Besides, we propose several key approaches to improve bone repair strategies. This perspective provides a guidance for future research direction of bone repair to improve treatment efficiency in both clinical …

Biomaterials and nanomedicine for bone regeneration: Progress and future prospects Read More »

Owing to the super-stable mineralization property, layered double hydroxides exhibited excellent performance in soil remediation contaminated by heavy metal ions, providing new strategies and insights into rational designing of amendments in other heavy metals pollution scenarios. Abstract: Agriculture soil plays a crucial role in sustainable development of human society. Unfortunately, soil quality is continuing degradation …

Super-stable mineralization effect of layered double hydroxides for heavy metals: Application in soil remediation and perspective Read More »

This perspective highlights the recent development of dynamically switchable MRI contrast agents that can achieve structural transformation and controllable MR signal activation at the disease site in response to various pathological stimuli. Moreover, current challenges and future perspectives of dynamic contrast agents for the accurate detection of microscopic lesions are commented.

Biological applications of nanomaterials as delivery carriers have been embedded in traditional biomedical research for decades. Despite lagging behind, recent significant breakthroughs in the use of nanocarriers as tools for plant biotechnology have created great interest.