Table 3.

Summary of tannic acid-based biomaterials—their properties and applications.

Polymer Type	Properties	Applications	Reference
collagen	Pseudoplastic rheological behavior, high viscosity	Wound dressings, drug delivery	Brazdaru et al. 2015 [52] Albu et al. 2009 [53]
	Inhibition the melanoma cancer cells growth	Biomaterials with anticancer properties	Ngobili et al. 2015 [54] Bridgeman et al. 2018 [55]
	High hydrothermal stability	Wound dressings	Wu et al. 2018 [56]
	Improved scaffold mechanical properties and cellular preosteoblasts activity	Tissue regeneration	Lee et al. 2018 [57] An et al. 2019 [58]
chitosan	Improved mechanical properties, decreased degradation rate, improved cells viability	Wound dressings	Rubentheren et al. 2015 [59] Kaczmarek et al. 2019 [60] Kaczmarek et al. 2020 [61]
	Decrease of bacteria adhesion	Wound dressings, coatings	Kumorek et al. 2020 [62]
	The medication of released rate by the amount of tannic acid	Drug delivery in anticancer treatment	Sun et al. 2020 [63]
	Reduced swelling degree	Wound dressings	Popa et al. 2018 [64]
agarose	Improved mechanical properties, stimulated wound healing, high biocompatibility	Drug delivery, Wound dressings	Ninan et al. 2016 [65]
	Reduced adsorption of bovine serum albumin and the adhesion of Escherichia coli, high biocompatibility	Titanium, stainless steel, and silicon coating	Xu et al. 2017 [66]
Starch	Improved physicochemical properties	Wound dressings	Zhu, 2015 [67] Wei et al. 2019 [68]
Hyaluronic acid	Enhanced physicochemical properties, inhibition of degradation by hyaluronidase, increase in cells adhesion to the surface and their proliferation, antioxidant properties	Wound dressings, tissue regeneration	Lee et al. 2018 [69] Grabska et al. 2019 [70]
Silk	Improved wet-adhesive properties and stability, low cytotoxicity, antibacterial efficiency against S. aureus, Candida albicans, Cornebacterium and E. coli	Coatings, tissue regeneration	Gao et al. 2020 [71] Jing et al. 2019 [72] Cheng et al. 2020 [73]