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 …

Bioadhesive technology platforms

SJ Wu, X Zhao - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bioadhesives have emerged as transformative and versatile tools in healthcare, offering the
ability to attach tissues with ease and minimal damage. These materials present numerous …

Fatigue-free artificial ionic skin toughened by self-healable elastic nanomesh

J Wang, B Wu, P Wei, S Sun, P Wu - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Robust ionic sensing materials that are both fatigue-resistant and self-healable like human
skin are essential for soft electronics and robotics with extended service life. However, most …

Tough, transparent, and slippery PVA hydrogel led by syneresis

D Liu, Y Cao, P Jiang, Y Wang, Y Lu, Z Ji, X Wang… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Slippery and transparent polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogels with mechanical robustness
exhibit broad applications in artificial biological soft tissues, flexible wearable electronics …

Spider-silk-inspired strong and tough hydrogel fibers with anti-freezing and water retention properties

S Wu, Z Liu, C Gong, W Li, S Xu, R Wen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ideal hydrogel fibers with high toughness and environmental tolerance are indispensable for
their long-term application in flexible electronics as actuating and sensing elements …

Liquid metal–polymer conductor-based conformal cyborg devices

J Qi, S Yang, Y Jiang, J Cheng, S Wang, Q Rao… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Gallium-based liquid metal (LM) exhibits exceptional properties such as high conductivity
and biocompatibility, rendering it highly valuable for the development of conformal …

Entanglement in smart hydrogels: fast response time, anti‐freezing and anti‐drying

Y Feng, S Wang, Y Li, W Ma, G Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The common techniques to improve hydrogel's mechanical properties include increasing
crosslinking density and forming crosslinked double‐network hydrogel, which may cause …

Biomimetic gradient bouligand structure enhances impact resistance of ceramic‐polymer composites

SM Wen, SM Chen, W Gao, Z Zheng, JZ Bao… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biological materials relied on multiple synergistic structural design elements typically exhibit
excellent comprehensive mechanical properties. Hierarchical incorporation of different …

Impact‐resistant hydrogels by harnessing 2D hierarchical structures

X Liang, G Chen, IM Lei, P Zhang, Z Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the strengthening capacity through harnessing multi‐length‐scale structural hierarchy,
synthetic hydrogels hold tremendous promise as a low‐cost and abundant material for …

Tough gelatin hydrogel for tissue engineering

X Yuan, Z Zhu, P **a, Z Wang, X Zhao… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tough hydrogel has attracted considerable interest in various fields, however, due to poor
biocompatibility, nondegradation, and pronounced compositional differences from natural …