“…Hydrogels, which are just like living tissues when they are highly swollen in water, are in favor of the adhesion, proliferation and differentiation of cells, facilitate nutrient input and waste output, and provide enough space and mechanical stability for new tissue formation (Palumbo et al, 2014;Levengood & Zhang, 2014;Wang & Stegemann, 2010). Up to now, hydrogels have been extensively explored as scaffolds for tissue engineering such as bone (Bae et al, 2011(Bae et al, , 2014Slaughter, Khurshid, Fisher, Khademhosseini, & Peppas, 2009), cartilage (Levett et al, 2014), skin (Iannitti, Bingol, Rottigni, & Palmieri, 2013) and adipose (Tan et al, 2009).…”