Self-healing injectable hydrogels for tissue regeneration

P Bertsch, M Diba, DJ Mooney… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Biomaterials with the ability to self-heal and recover their structural integrity offer many
advantages for applications in biomedicine. The past decade has witnessed the rapid …

Structure–reactivity–property relationships in covalent adaptable networks

V Zhang, B Kang, JV Accardo… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer networks built out of dynamic covalent bonds offer the potential to translate the
control and tunability of chemical reactions to macroscopic physical properties. Under …

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 …

Aqueous spinning of robust, self-healable, and crack-resistant hydrogel microfibers enabled by hydrogen bond nanoconfinement

Y Shi, B Wu, S Sun, P Wu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Robust damage-tolerant hydrogel fibers with high strength, crack resistance, and self-
healing properties are indispensable for their long-term uses in soft machines and robots as …

Advanced supramolecular design for direct ink writing of soft materials

M Tang, Z Zhong, C Ke - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The exciting advancements in 3D-printing of soft materials are changing the landscape of
materials development and fabrication. Among various 3D-printers that are designed for soft …

Stretchable, Ultratough, and Intrinsically Self‐Extinguishing Elastomers with Desirable Recyclability

Y Xue, J Lin, T Wan, Y Luo, Z Ma, Y Zhou… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced elastomers are increasingly used in emerging areas, for example, flexible
electronics and devices, and these real‐world applications often require elastomers to be …

Programmed microalgae-gel promotes chronic wound healing in diabetes

Y Kang, L Xu, J Dong, X Yuan, J Ye, Y Fan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Chronic diabetic wounds are at lifelong risk of develo** diabetic foot ulcers owing to
severe hypoxia, excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS), a complex inflammatory …

Temperature-mediated phase separation enables strong yet reversible mechanical and adhesive hydrogels

L Zhang, S Wang, Z Wang, Z Liu, X Xu, H Liu, D Wang… - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels with strong yet reversible mechanical and adhesive properties fabricated in a
facile and friendly manner are important for engineering and intelligent electronics …

Dynamic bonds: adaptable timescales for responsive materials

SV Wanasinghe, OJ Dodo… - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic bonds introduce unique properties such as self‐healing, recyclability, shape
memory, and malleability to polymers. Significant efforts have been made to synthesize a …

Peeling–Stiffening Self‐Adhesive Ionogel with Superhigh Interfacial Toughness

Y Shi, B Wu, S Sun, P Wu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐adhesive materials that can directly adhere to diverse solid surfaces are indispensable
in modern life and technologies. However, it remains a challenge to develop self‐adhesive …