Bioprinting, within the emerging field of biofabrication, aims at the fabrication of functional
biomimetic constructs. Different 3D bioprinting techniques have been adapted to bioprint cell …

Over the past two decades, the development of hydrogels with high mechanical strength and
toughness shows both fundamental and practical significances. It is challenging yet highly …

Outstanding overall mechanical properties are essential for the successful utilization of
hydrogels in advanced applications such as human-machine interfaces and soft robotics …

Slippery and transparent polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogels with mechanical robustness
exhibit broad applications in artificial biological soft tissues, flexible wearable electronics …

Light-based vat-polymerization bioprinting enables computer-aided patterning of 3D cell-
laden structures in a point-by-point, layer-by-layer or volumetric manner, using vat (vats) …

Processing tough hydrogels into sophisticated architectures is crucial for their applications
as structural elements. However, Digital Light Processing (DLP) printing of tough hydrogels …

Engineering conventional hydrogels with muscle‐like anisotropic structures can efficiently
increase the fatigue threshold over 1000 J m− 2 along the alignment direction; however, the …

Hydrogels have become ideal materials in the nascent applications of tissue engineering,
soft robots, drug delivery, and so forth. However, compared with biological tissues, the …

Hydrogels have been widely explored to adapt to different application circumstances. As
typical wet‐soft materials, the high‐water content of hydrogels is beneficial to their wide …

Polymer gels, such as hydrogels, have been widely used in biomedical applications, flexible
electronics, and soft machines. Polymer network design and its contribution to the …