The mechanical properties of polymer gels devote to emerging devices and machines in
fields such as biomedical engineering, flexible bioelectronics, biomimetic actuators, and …

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 …

The directional and dynamic hydrogen bonds are of vital importance for both nucleic acids
and proteins, but they naturally apply strong multiple hydrogen bonds in pendant groups …

Hydrogel electrolytes have been extensively developed for flexible zinc-ion batteries (FZIBs)
owing to their rich ion transfer channels, mechanical stability and intrinsic safety. However …

Artificial electronic skin (E‐skin), a class of promising materials mimicking the physical‐
chemical and sensory performance of the human skin, has gained extensive interest in the …

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 …

Environmentally adaptive hydrogels that are capable of reconfiguration in response to
external stimuli have shown great potential toward bioinspired actuation and soft robotics …

Hydrogels with high strength and toughness exhibit promising prospects for a wide range of
applications. However, the construction of isotropically strong and tough transparent …

Simultaneously introducing covalent and supramolecular cross‐links into one system to
construct dually cross‐linked networks, has been proved an effective approach to prepare …

Conspectus Protein-based biomaterials attract growing interests due to their encoded and
programmable robust mechanical properties, superelasticity, plasticity, shape adaptability …