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 …

Advances in hydrogel technology have unlocked unique and valuable capabilities that are
being applied to a diverse set of translational applications. Hydrogels perform functions …

Stretchable ionic skins are intriguing in mimicking the versatile sensations of natural skins.
However, for their applications in advanced electronics, good elastic recovery, self-healing …

Impact-stiffening materials that undergo a strain rate-induced soft-to-rigid transition hold
great promise as soft armors in the protection of the human body and equipment. However …

Hydrogels are promising soft materials as tissue engineering scaffolds, stretchable sensors,
and soft robotics. Yet, it remains challenging to develop synthetic hydrogels with mechanical …

Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) has proven to be highly effective in treating blood cancers, but
traditional approaches to ACT are poorly effective in treating solid tumors observed …

Polymeric materials play critical role in many current technologies. Among them, adaptive
polymeric materials with dynamic (reversible) bonds exhibit unique properties and provide …

Tissue engineering technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, offering opportunities
to construct biologically active tissues or organ substitutes to repair or even enhance the …

Thermal stiffening materials that are naturally soft but adaptively self‐strengthen upon heat
are intriguing for load‐bearing and self‐protection applications at elevated temperatures …

Dynamic supramolecular networks are constantly accompanied by thermal instability. The
fundamental reason is most reversible noncovalent bonds quickly decay at elevated …