Over the past few years, development of wearable devices has gained increasing
momentum. Notably, the demand for stretchable strain sensors has significantly increased …

Smart or stimuli-responsive materials are an emerging class of materials used for tissue
engineering and drug delivery. A variety of stimuli (including temperature, pH, redox-state …

Hydrogels have been extensively used as scaffolds in tissue engineering for cell adhesion,
proliferation, migration, and differentiation because of their high-water content and …

A highly stretchable nanocomposite (NC) hydrogel was fabricated via in situ free radical
polymerization of acrylamide. In particular, an exfoliated two-dimensional MXene (Ti3C2) …

Active biomaterials offer novel approaches to study mechanotransduction in mammalian
cells. These material systems probe cellular responses by dynamically modulating their …

Stable mechanical properties under cyclic mechanical loads are critical for the applications
of hydrogels in flexible electronics and tissue engineering. However, most existing tough …

With the rapid development of hydrogels, hydrogel adhesion has attracted increasing
attention in the last decade, but strong adhesion remains a challenge due to the large …

Mimicking the natural actuating systems artificially provides ample opportunities in the field
of soft robotics. In this domain, recent advancements in tough hydrogels along with …

An emerging approach to improve the physicobiochemical properties and the
multifunctionality of biomaterials is to incorporate functional nanomaterials (NMs) onto 2D …

Poly (ether ether ketone)(PEEK) is a biocompatible polymer, but the lack of angiogenesis
makes the long-term osteogenic fixation of PEEK implants challenging, which has hampered …