Design principles for strong and tough hydrogels

X Li, JP Gong - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks swollen with water. Owing to their soft and
water-containing nature, hydrogels are promising materials for applications in many fields …

Recent advances in conductive hydrogels: classifications, properties, and applications

T Zhu, Y Ni, GM Biesold, Y Cheng, M Ge, H Li… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogel-based conductive materials for smart wearable devices have attracted increasing
attention due to their excellent flexibility, versatility, and outstanding biocompatibility. This …

Naturally sourced hydrogels: emerging fundamental materials for next-generation healthcare sensing

Z Wang, H Wei, Y Huang, Y Wei, J Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The flourishing development of flexible healthcare sensing systems is inseparable from the
fundamental materials with application-oriented mechanical and electrical properties …

Fatigue‐resistant conducting polymer hydrogels as strain sensor for underwater robotics

Z Zhang, G Chen, Y Xue, Q Duan… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conducting polymer hydrogels are widely used as strain sensors in light of their distinct skin‐
like softness, strain sensitivity, and environmental adaptiveness in the fields of wearable …

A high‐performance, sensitive, wearable multifunctional sensor based on rubber/CNT for human motion and skin temperature detection

M Lin, Z Zheng, L Yang, M Luo, L Fu, B Lin… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, flexible wearable electronic devices have attracted immense interest as an
alternative for conventional rigid metallic conductors in personal healthcare monitoring …

Perspectives on recent advancements in energy harvesting, sensing and bio-medical applications of piezoelectric gels

T Vijayakanth, S Shankar, G Finkelstein-Zuta… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of next-generation bioelectronics, as well as the powering of consumer
and medical devices, require power sources that are soft, flexible, extensible, and even …

Highly sensitive and stretchable MXene/CNTs/TPU composite strain sensor with bilayer conductive structure for human motion detection

H Dong, J Sun, X Liu, X Jiang, S Lu - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The universal application of wearable strain sensors in various situations for human-activity
monitoring is considerably limited by the contradiction between high sensitivity and broad …

Functionalized hydrogel-based wearable gas and humidity sensors

Y Luo, J Li, Q Ding, H Wang, C Liu, J Wu - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Breathing is an inherent human activity; however, the composition of the air we inhale and
gas exhale remains unknown to us. To address this, wearable vapor sensors can help …

Hydrogels and hydrogel-derived materials for energy and water sustainability

Y Guo, J Bae, Z Fang, P Li, F Zhao, G Yu - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Energy and water are of fundamental importance for our modern society, and advanced
technologies on sustainable energy storage and conversion as well as water resource …

Conductive hydrogels for bioenergy harvesting and self-powered application

C Zhang, MOG Nayeem, Z Wang, X Pu… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conductive hydrogels (CHs) are characterized by tissue-like mechanical properties, multiple
stimuli-responsive abilities and favourable biocompatibility, enabling their wearable devices …