The increasing need for food to support the growing population has led to the widespread
use of synthetic fertilizers in the agricultural sector around the world. Most of these …

Hydrogel delivery systems can leverage therapeutically beneficial outcomes of drug delivery
and have found clinical use. Hydrogels can provide spatial and temporal control over the …

Thermogels are also known as thermo-sensitive or thermo-responsive hydrogels and can
undergo a sol–gel transition as the temperature increases. This thermogelling behavior is …

Light-initiated polymerization processes are currently an important tool in various industrial
fields. The advancement of technology has resulted in the use of photopolymerization in …

Every year, millions of people around the world undergo bone graft and artificial prosthesis
transplants which engenders the repair and/or replacement of native bone for treating bone …

Hydrogels are attractive materials for the controlled release of therapeutics because of their
capacity to embed biologically active agents in their water-swollen network. Recent …

Hydrogels are highly water-swollen molecular networks that are ideal platforms to create
tissue mimetics owing to their vast and tunable properties. As such, hydrogels are promising …

Over the past decades, significant progress has been made in the field of hydrogels as
functional biomaterials. Biomedical application of hydrogels was initially hindered by the …

Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymer‐based materials with high water content and physical
characteristics that resemble the native extracellular matrix. Because of their remarkable …

Thermally responsive hydrogels modulate their gelation behavior upon temperature change.
Aqueous solutions solidify into hydrogels when a critical temperature is reached. In …