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{"title":"Advanced conductive eutectogel material for flexible sensor applications","authors":"Shumaila Ijaz ,&nbsp;Jia Wan ,&nbsp;Naila Ijaz ,&nbsp;Navid Hussain Shah ,&nbsp;Javed Iqbal ,&nbsp;Banzeer Ahsan Abbasi ,&nbsp;Jun Wu ,&nbsp;Yongzhi Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103610","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103610","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional materials fall short in terms of performance, sustainability, and compliance with standards as the demand for flexible and multifunctional devices in the robotics, electronics, and healthcare sectors increases. The primary challenge of critical relevance is coupling primary properties, i.e., mechanical flexibility, electrical conductivity, and environmental sensitivity, into a single material system. Although significant advancements have been made with synthetic polymers and gel materials, the answer lies in eutectogels, which balance the favorable characteristics of gel materials with those of eutectic systems. Eutectogels represent a novel emergent class of multifunctional soft materials that sparked a lot of interest in the transformative potential, particularly in wearable electronics and biomedicine. With the need for advanced materials with synergistic properties, particularly stretchability, toughness, breaking elongation, self-adhesion, self-healing, conductivity, sensitivity design, and substantial biocompatibility increases, eutectogels offer enticing solutions to today's technological challenges. Their broad use is hindered by the absence of comprehensive information on their design strategies, fabrication techniques, and incorporation of multifunctional aspects. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of eutectogels, highlighting their common design strategies and the key synthesis mechanisms, focusing on their remarkable properties and applications in flexible sensing devices, energy storage, and the current application of multifunctional eutectogels in healthcare systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":239,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Colloid and Interface Science","volume":"344 ","pages":"Article 103610"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144680606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Structural and functional roles of lactic acid bacteria in food delivery systems: A dual perspective of passive encapsulation and active carriers","authors":"Jianwei Zang ,&nbsp;Yimeng Kou ,&nbsp;Yibo Shi ,&nbsp;Luyao Xiao ,&nbsp;Kai Ma ,&nbsp;Changliang Zhang ,&nbsp;Shuo Geng ,&nbsp;Xin Rui ,&nbsp;Tao Lin ,&nbsp;Wei Li","doi":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103599","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103599","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the demand for functional foods and precision nutrition continues to rise, there is an urgent need for advanced delivery systems that improve the stability, bioavailability, and targeted release of sensitive bioactive compounds. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB), commonly found in fermented foods, have taken on a dual role—as both passive encapsulation targets and active delivery carriers—forming a conceptual basis for the development of next-generation food delivery systems. This review examines the interactions between LAB and various food-grade encapsulation materials including proteins (such as whey protein, casein, zein), polysaccharides (like alginate, chitosan), and lipids (such as liposomes, W/O/W emulsions), highlighting roles of electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interaction, covalent cross-linking, and interfacial self-assembly. Moreover, four emerging LAB-based delivery systems are classified: (i) surface adsorption via non-covalent interactions, (ii) intracellular loading driven by membrane transport or biosynthesis, (iii) co-encapsulation in hydrogels and emulsions, as well as (iv) engineered LAB capable of <em>in situ</em> synthesis and targeted release. The review also summarizes practical applications in hydrocolloid-rich food systems, such as yogurt, plant-based gels, and functional beverages. These applications highlight LAB's contribution to enhancing structural stability, controlled release, and nutritional functionality. Finally, key challenges are discussed, including the limited compatibility between encapsulating materials and food matrices, insufficient understanding of the interactions between exopolysaccharides and interfaces, and the need for in vivo validation. Based on these insights, future directions are proposed to guide the rational design of next-generation LAB-based delivery systems for precision nutrition and functional food innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":239,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Colloid and Interface Science","volume":"344 ","pages":"Article 103599"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144665826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unveiling the power of polymeric nanoparticles: Pioneering advances in breast cancer treatment","authors":"Vishal Kumar ,&nbsp;Saurav Kumar Jha ,&nbsp;Garima Gupta ,&nbsp;Amirhossein Sahebkar ,&nbsp;Prashant Kesharwani","doi":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103606","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103606","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Breast cancer has become the most common type of cancer worldwide. Chemotherapy is a prevalent and efficacious treatment for breast cancer; yet, it presents several problems that might impact both the treatment's effectiveness and the patient's quality of life. Certain breast cancer cells exhibit inherent resistance to chemotherapeutic agents from the outset. Cancer cells may evolve throughout therapy, developing resistance to previously successful medications. This encompasses augmented drug efflux (e.g., via P-glycoprotein), enhanced DNA repair mechanisms, and modifications in drug targets. Moreover, conventional chemotherapy is impeded by several limitations, including poor drug solubility, reduced blood circulation time, harm to healthy tissues, drug resistance, and tumor recurrence. Consequently, it is essential to provide significant doses of chemotherapeutics to guarantee that a sufficient amount reaches the tumor and has the desired effect. Unfortunately, the administration of excessive pharmacological doses damages healthy tissue, resulting in various side effects including nausea, baldness, fatigue, immune system breakdown, sterility, and organ dysfunction. In this context, polymeric nanoparticles, including liposomes, nanocomposites, polymeric micelles, and dendrimers, have several benefits relative to conventional therapy. This encompasses greater circulation duration, superior targeting characteristics, compatibility with biological systems, natural degradability, and higher retention of drug-loaded nanoparticles inside tumors, leading to diminished side effects in other bodily regions. This work offers innovative perspectives on the use of polymeric nanoparticles as an advanced nano-drug delivery technology for chemotherapeutics, particularly in breast cancer therapy. It also analyses several kinds of copolymers used in the synthesis of polymeric micelles. This study examines the physicochemical features of these nanoparticles, their synthesis methods, characterization techniques, pharmacokinetic behavior, and their applicability in breast cancer diagnostics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":239,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Colloid and Interface Science","volume":"344 ","pages":"Article 103606"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144680607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engineering next-generation smart delivery materials for dentistry","authors":"Sumanta Ghosh ,&nbsp;Chao Liang ,&nbsp;Sang Jin Lee ,&nbsp;Wei Qiao","doi":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103607","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103607","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the last two decades, the healthcare field has witnessed exponential growth in the applications of stimuli-responsive biomaterials for diverse therapeutic purposes. This has led to the development of numerous smart dental biomaterials tailored for the precise and on-demand delivery of therapeutic agents. By leveraging the specific exogenous and endogenous stimuli, these smart materials fine-tune their physicochemical properties to improve the clinical efficacy of the therapeutic agents and mitigate their side effects. This review systemically examines the design and objectives of the smart biomaterials platforms specifically for dental and associated soft tissue. Additionally, we comprehensively summarize various smart biomaterials-based delivery platforms, categorized by the nature of the stimuli, including pH, enzyme, temperature, light, ultrasound, electricity, and pressure. Furthermore, this review discusses several newly developed smart platforms utilized in different dental conditions, with a particular focus on those undergoing clinical trials. This review aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art smart drug delivery systems in dentistry and offer insights into developing next-generation platforms to address various clinical needs, such as infection eradication, inflammation modulation, tissue regeneration, and immunotherapy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":239,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Colloid and Interface Science","volume":"344 ","pages":"Article 103607"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploiting mechanical sensing in deformed surface and interface towards soft robots","authors":"He Jin ,&nbsp;Zhisen Zhu ,&nbsp;Hang Li ,&nbsp;Nan Kang ,&nbsp;Mohamed EL Mansori ,&nbsp;Wenling Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103600","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103600","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The integration of flexible sensors is crucial for soft robots to perform specific tasks during complex deformation (such as bending, torsion, compression, stretching, etc.) and interactions with unstructured environments. However, it is still a significant challenge to construct high-performance flexible sensors due to the high flexibility, deformation ability, and multiple degrees of freedom of soft robots. An efficient approach is to convert the continuous deformations of soft robots into discrete representations, which enable the scientists to better understand the deformation process and clarify the impact of surface and interface on sensor performance. Thus, intelligent algorithms can be used to further optimize the number and arrangement of sensors, improving the overall efficiency and performance of the system. This paper focuses on the impact of surface interface construction on the performance of flexible sensors. First of all, based on the basic classification of flexible sensors, this paper systematically analyzes the construction strategy of the surface and interface of flexible sensors, including surface structure optimization, microstructure array design and void structure. Secondly, the preparation methods of different surface and interfaces are discussed in detail. Then, the wide application of flexible sensors in multiple fields is discussed. Finally, the future development direction of flexible sensors is summarized and prospected.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":239,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Colloid and Interface Science","volume":"344 ","pages":"Article 103600"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144680605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"3D printing of hydrogel nanocomposites: A symbiotic union for advanced biomedical applications","authors":"Nariman Rajabifar ,&nbsp;Mohammad Hesam Alemi ,&nbsp;Amir Rostami ,&nbsp;Payam Zarrintaj ,&nbsp;Yasser Zare ,&nbsp;Muhammad Tajammal Munir ,&nbsp;Mohsen Shahrousvand ,&nbsp;Kyong Yop Rhee ,&nbsp;Hossein Nazockdast","doi":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103602","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103602","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hydrogels have emerged as thriving materials for developing biomedical devices due to their biocompatibility and hydrophilic nature, encompassing various fields from biomedical engineering and pharmaceuticals to wound care and tissue scaffolding. Nevertheless, traditional hydrogels are beset with poor mechanical strength, limited controlled release of medicines, and irreversible chain breakage, all of which compromise their efficacy in practice. The desirable performance of hydrogels can be notably lifted upon incorporating nanomaterials, yielding tunable functions for devising next-generation biocompatible structures. Despite the alluring prospects offered by hydrogel nanocomposites, the processing of these materials is still in its infancy and remains full of challenges to produce personalized, tangible items. Herein, we endeavor to bridge the gap between hydrogel nanocomposites for biomedical applications with additive manufacturing processing, providing a useful guideline for comparing and selecting viable three-dimensional (3D) printing approaches. We review the background of synthesizing hydrogel nanocomposites along with the key concepts toward biomedical applications, featuring a survey on the recent reports on 3D printing of hydrogel nanocomposites for developing customized tissues, drug delivery, bioadhesives, wound dressing, and biosensors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":239,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Colloid and Interface Science","volume":"344 ","pages":"Article 103602"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144662067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Progress in understanding of evaporation of droplets:Fundamentals and applications","authors":"Leonid A. Dombrovsky ,&nbsp;Vladimir Yu. Levashov ,&nbsp;Shraga Shoval ,&nbsp;Edward Bormashenko","doi":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103605","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103605","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Evaporation of liquid droplets, especially water and aqueous solutions, is the basis of various industrial technologies and is found in many natural phenomena. In particular, the analysis of droplet evaporation is important to model the drying process of solutions in the pharmaceutical and food industries, the thermal processes in combustion engines, the use of water mist curtains in fire safety and the reasonable use of irrigation in agriculture. Climate studies, including the Earth's atmosphere and the ocean-atmosphere interactions, also require computational modeling evaporation of water droplets with various impurities and seawater droplets in the ocean's surface layer. The present review paper includes analyses of the evaporation of relatively large sessile droplets and small droplets suspended in ambient air. The paper describes some little-known details regarding modeling the radiative evaporation of single droplets and droplet layers including the spectral radiative transfer analysis. The review also covers the evaporation of sessile droplets, which is relevant in various applications. The impact of interfacial effects, such as contact angle hysteresis and Marangoni flows, on sessile droplet evaporation is discussed. Trends for future investigation are foreseen.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":239,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Colloid and Interface Science","volume":"344 ","pages":"Article 103605"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Polysaccharide-based nanoparticles for 3D (bio)printing","authors":"Zahra Khorsandi ,&nbsp;Mehdi Maham ,&nbsp;Valiollah Mirkhani ,&nbsp;Benjamin Kruppke ,&nbsp;Hossein Ali Khonakdar","doi":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103595","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103595","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Biopolymers are known as environmental materials with massive applications in various fields. Among biopolymers, polysaccharides are bioactive, renewable, bioresorbable, biocompatible, biodegradable, and hydrophilic. These brilliant properties have made them promising materials for use in emerging technologies. Three-dimensional (3D) printing of these green materials has extensive applications in clinical usage, novel electronic devices, developed resin and polymers, absorbents, <em>etc</em>. This review describes the recent development of employing polysaccharide-based nanomaterials in the construction of different bio-products by using extrusion, laser, inkjet 3D printing, and vat polymerization methods. The influence of incorporating nanoparticles (NPs) on the properties of the final 3D-printed composite comprising reinforcement effects, mechanical properties, viscosity, printability, shear-thinning property, biocompatibility, structural integrity, and interactions have been evaluated. This review helps researchers keep up with developments in polysaccharide-based 3D-printed composites, with the vision that NPs can potentially revolutionize the bioink issue in the future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":239,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Colloid and Interface Science","volume":"344 ","pages":"Article 103595"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144680608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials and functionalization for targeted adsorption of pb and cd in wastewater: Mechanisms, challenges, and future development prospects","authors":"Fenghui Wu,&nbsp;Ding Yuan,&nbsp;Qiang Niu,&nbsp;Dandan Chen,&nbsp;Xuejun Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103597","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103597","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the rapid development of global industrialization, heavy metals(HM) pollution in water bodies worldwide has become one of the key environmental challenges due to its persistent toxicity and bioaccumulation risks. Lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd), as common and typical representatives of toxic heavy metals, are primarily originating from wastewater discharge from industries such as metallurgy, electroplating, and pesticides. Due to their heightened toxicity risks, membrane separation, precipitation, adsorption, and other technologies have been proposed. Among them, adsorption has been widely recognized due to its simple operation, low cost, and remarkable effectiveness. Adsorption materials are the technical core of adsorption methods. MOF materials are superior to traditional carbon based, silicon-based, natural materials and other adsorption materials due to their high selectivity and controllability. However, there is no systematic comparison of MOF materials for removing Pb and Cd from wastewater. The diversity, adsorption differences and applicable scenarios of these materials make their industrial application difficult. This article systematically summarizes the MOF materials and functionalization methods for removing Pb and Cd from wastewater, and compares their performance indicators such as maximum capacity, selectivity coefficients, and regeneration cycle times. The advantages and disadvantages of the materials are compared, and the applicable scenarios of different materials are clarified. To address the defects and drawbacks of MOF materials, an innovative approach has been proposed to enhancing the synthesis, functionalization, and material recycling of MOF materials through multiple physical fields. This approach precisely regulates the nucleation, pore structure, exposure of active sites, and controllability of functional group grafting in MOF materials. This collaborative strategy is not only expected to break through the limits of traditional material performance, but also to achieve intelligent adsorption systems that respond to extreme environmental stress. This study provides a forward-looking perspective for designing next-generation MOF materials to achieve sustainable water purification.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":239,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Colloid and Interface Science","volume":"344 ","pages":"Article 103597"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144632216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fibrous protein gels: Nanoscale features governing gelation behavior and gel properties","authors":"Farong Sun ,&nbsp;Yiwen Zhang ,&nbsp;Binjia Zhang ,&nbsp;Dongling Qiao ,&nbsp;Fengwei Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103596","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cis.2025.103596","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Protein fibrils, as nanoscale structures with high aspect ratios, exhibits superior physical properties—such as gelation, emulsification, stability, and foaming—compared with traditional protein gels. This review explores the properties, mechanisms, and recent advancements related to protein fibrils in gels. It begins by outlining the fibril formation process and detailing factors influencing this process, such as pH, temperature, heating time, ionic strength, protein concentration, chaotropic agent, shear forces, pressure, and ultrasound. Then, the conditions for gel formation and the properties of single-component fibrous gels are examined, with a focus on the decisive impact of fibril morphology, particularly length, on gel mechanical properties. Further, the review discusses polysaccharide-enhanced protein fibril hydrogels, polyphenol-enhanced protein fibril hydrogels, and protein fibrils as gel reinforcers, highlighting significant improvements in mechanical strength and stability. It also covers recent applications of fibrous gels in delivery systems, edible coatings, wound dressings, and tissue engineering scaffolds. Finally, the promising prospects of protein fibrils are summarized. These structures impart gels with enhanced mechanical properties, stability, enzyme resistance, self-healing ability, antioxidant activity, and antibacterial effects, offering tremendous potential for applications across various fields.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":239,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Colloid and Interface Science","volume":"344 ","pages":"Article 103596"},"PeriodicalIF":15.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144634536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}