Hydrogel bioink reinforcement for additive manufacturing: a focused review of emerging strategies

D Chimene, R Kaunas, AK Gaharwar - Advanced materials, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bioprinting is an emerging approach for fabricating cell‐laden 3D scaffolds via robotic
deposition of cells and biomaterials into custom shapes and patterns to replicate complex …

Material properties and applications of mechanically interlocked polymers

LF Hart, JE Hertzog, PM Rauscher, BW Rawe… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Mechanically interlocked polymers (MIPs), such as polyrotaxanes and polycatenanes, are
polymer architectures that incorporate a mechanical bond. In a polyrotaxane, the …

Toughening elastomers using mussel-inspired iron-catechol complexes

E Filippidi, TR Cristiani, CD Eisenbach, JH Waite… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
Materials often exhibit a trade-off between stiffness and extensibility; for example,
strengthening elastomers by increasing their cross-link density leads to embrittlement and …

A low‐hysteresis and highly stretchable ionogel enabled by well dispersed slidable cross‐linker for rapid human‐machine interaction

R Du, T Bao, T Zhu, J Zhang, X Huang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ionic conductive soft materials for mimicking human skin are a promising topic since they
can be thought of as a possible basis for biomimetic sensing. In pursuit of devices with a …

50th anniversary perspective: networks and gels: soft but dynamic and tough

C Creton - Macromolecules, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Soft polymer networks have seen an explosion of recent developments motivated by new
high tech applications in the biomedical field or in engineering. We present a candid and …

A highly stretchable and self‐healing supramolecular elastomer based on sliding crosslinks and hydrogen bonds

R Du, Z Xu, C Zhu, Y Jiang, H Yan… - Advanced Functional …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The long application life and stable performance of stretchable electronics have been
putting forward requirements for both higher mechanical properties and better self‐healing …

Dynamics of ring-containing polymers: Macromolecular rotaxanes, polyrotaxanes and slide-ring networks

S Ghiassinejad, M Ahmadi, E Van Ruymbeke… - Progress in Polymer …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
A mechanical bond serves as a distinctive approach for harnessing the most beneficial
features of both covalent and supramolecular chemistries, offering stability and structural …

Conductive hydrogels—A novel material: Recent advances and future perspectives

K Liu, S Wei, L Song, H Liu, T Wang - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
A conductive hydrogel is a kind of polymer material having substantial potential applications
with various properties, including high toughness, self-recoverability, electrical conductivity …

Supramolecular polymers and materials formed by host-guest interactions

A Harada, Y Takashima, A Hashidzume… - Bulletin of the …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Supramolecular polymers and materials have been designed and prepared using
macromolecular recognition by cyclodextrins as host parts. Polyrotaxanes, tubular polymers …

A photoresponsive polymeric actuator topologically cross-linked by movable units based on a [2] rotaxane

Y Takashima, Y Hayashi, M Osaki, F Kaneko… - …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
A photoresponsive polymeric material, in which [2] rotaxane units with α-cyclodextrin
threading onto an azobenzene derivative is used as a topological cross-link for the main …