Hydrogel: Diversity of structures and applications in food science

J Li, X Jia, L Yin - Food Reviews International, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Hydrogels are a series of soft and wet materials with three dimensions of crosslinked
networks. Hydrogels have attracted great attention due to their diverse functional properties …

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 …

Barnacle cement proteins‐inspired tough hydrogels with robust, long‐lasting, and repeatable underwater adhesion

H Fan, J Wang, JP Gong - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The development of adhesives that can achieve robust and repeatable adhesion to various
surfaces underwater is promising; however, this remains a major challenge primarily …

Fabrication of bioinspired hydrogels: challenges and opportunities

H Fan, JP Gong - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Since the birth of synthetic hydrogel 60 years ago, hydrogels possessing various useful
properties and functions have been developed. The research directions of hydrogels have …

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 …

Tough, swelling-resistant, self-healing, and adhesive dual-cross-linked hydrogels based on polymer–tannic acid multiple hydrogen bonds

H Fan, J Wang, Z ** - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a facile and universal strategy in the fabrication of dual-cross-linked (DC)
single network hydrogels with high toughness,“nonswellability”, rapid self-healing, and …

Tough hydrogels with fast, strong, and reversible underwater adhesion based on a multiscale design

P Rao, TL Sun, L Chen, R Takahashi… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels have promising applications in diverse areas, especially wet environments
including tissue engineering, wound dressing, biomedical devices, and underwater soft …

Achieving swollen yet strengthened hydrogels by reorganizing multiphase network structure

Y Huang, S Qian, J Zhou, W Chen, T Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many living tissues, such as muscle, become mechanically stronger with growth. Yet,
synthetic hydrogels usually exhibit an opposite size‐mechanical property relation, that is …