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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress of antibacterial hydrogels in wound dressings

B Jia, G Li, E Cao, J Luo, X Zhao, H Huang - Materials Today Bio, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are essential biomaterials due to their favorable biocompatibility, mechanical
properties similar to human soft tissue extracellular matrix, and tissue repair properties. In …

Conductive hydrogel for flexible bioelectronic device: current progress and future perspective

Q He, Y Cheng, Y Deng, F Wen… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conductive hydrogels (CHs) for flexible bioelectronic devices have raised great attention
due to their tunable mechanical performances, adhesion, anti‐swelling, and …

A biomimetic “salting out—alignment—locking” tactic to design strong and tough hydrogel

X Sun, Y Mao, Z Yu, P Yang, F Jiang - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, hydrogel‐based soft materials have demonstrated huge potential in soft robotics,
flexible electronics as well as artificial skins. Although various methods are developed to …

Toughening double‐network hydrogels by polyelectrolytes

M Zhang, Y Yang, M Li, Q Shang, R **e, J Yu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Hoffmeister effect of inorganic salts is verified as a promising way to toughen hydrogels,
however, the high concentration of inorganic salts may be accompanied by poor …

Flexible conformally bioadhesive MXene hydrogel electronics for machine learning‐facilitated human‐interactive sensing

W Wang, H Zhou, Z Xu, Z Li, L Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Wearable epidermic electronics assembled from conductive hydrogels are attracting various
research attention for their seamless integration with human body for conformally real‐time …

High strength and toughness polymeric triboelectric materials enabled by dense crystal-domain cross-linking

C Cai, X Meng, L Zhang, B Luo, Y Liu, T Liu… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Lightweight, easily processed, and durable polymeric materials play a crucial role in
wearable sensor devices. However, achieving simultaneously high strength and toughness …

When it's heavier: interfacial and solvation chemistry of isotopes in aqueous electrolytes for Zn‐ion batteries

X Gao, Y Dai, C Zhang, Y Zhang, W Zong… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The electrochemical effect of isotope (EEI) of water is introduced in the Zn‐ion batteries
(ZIBs) electrolyte to deal with the challenge of severe side reactions and massive gas …

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 …

Multiscale structural nanocellulosic triboelectric aerogels induced by hofmeister effect

B Luo, C Cai, T Liu, X Meng, X Zhuang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of self‐powered wearable electronics will revolutionize the fields of smart
healthcare and sports monitoring. This technological advancement necessitates more …