Most tissues of the human body are characterized by highly anisotropic physical properties
and biological organization. Hydrogels have been proposed as scaffolding materials to …

Hydrogels, which are hydrophilic soft porous networks, are an important class of materials of
broad relevance to bioanalytical chemistry, soft‐robotics, drug delivery, and regenerative …

Highlights•Novel nanoparticles with enhanced magnetic properties have been made
available.•New material combinations offer many unexplored perspectives for …

In this review article, we provide an introduction to ferrogels, ie polymeric gels with
embedded magnetic particles. Due to the interplay between magnetic and elastic properties …

Microfluidic devices have not yet evolved into commercial off-the-shelf products. Although
highly integrated microfluidic structures, also known as lab-on-a-chip (LOC) and micrototal …

Magnetic hybrid materials in the form of magnetic gels and elastomers, that is, magnetic or
magnetizable colloidal particles embedded in an elastic polymer matrix, are fascinating …

Being able to predict and understand the behaviour of soft magnetic materials paves the
way to their technological applications. In this study we analyse the magnetic response of …

Using Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate the self-assembly of magnetic
nanogels in the presence of applied magnetic fields of moderate strength. We find that even …

In the perspective of develo** smart hybrid materials with customized features, ferrogels
and magnetorheological elastomers allow a synergy of elasticity and magnetism. The …

Over recent years, nano-engineered materials have become an important component of
artificial extracellular matrices. On one hand, these materials enable static enhancement of …