Current hydrogel advances in physicochemical and biological response-driven biomedical application diversity

H Cao, L Duan, Y Zhang, J Cao, K Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Hydrogel is a type of versatile platform with various biomedical applications after rational
structure and functional design that leverages on material engineering to modulate its …

Bioinspired hydrogel actuator for soft robotics: Opportunity and challenges

Y Chen, Y Zhang, H Li, J Shen, F Zhang, J He, J Lin… - Nano Today, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Natural organisms offer abundant inspiration for designing and fabricating hydrogel robots
with autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including motion, perception, and response to …

Water-responsive supercontractile polymer films for bioelectronic interfaces

J Yi, G Zou, J Huang, X Ren, Q Tian, Q Yu, P Wang… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Connecting different electronic devices is usually straightforward because they have paired,
standardized interfaces, in which the shapes and sizes match each other perfectly. Tissue …

Ultrarobust subzero healable materials enabled by polyphenol nano-assemblies

N Wang, X Yang, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2023‏ - nature.com
Bio-inspired self-healing materials hold great promise for applications in wearable
electronics, artificial muscles and soft robots, etc. However, self-healing at subzero …

Development of conductive hydrogels for fabricating flexible strain sensors

G Li, C Li, G Li, D Yu, Z Song, H Wang, X Liu, H Liu… - Small, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Conductive hydrogels can be prepared by incorporating various conductive materials into
polymeric network hydrogels. In recent years, conductive hydrogels have been developed …

Hydrogel-based strong and fast actuators by electroosmotic turgor pressure

H Na, YW Kang, CS Park, S Jung, HY Kim, JY Sun - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Hydrogels are promising as materials for soft actuators because of qualities such as
softness, transparency, and responsiveness to stimuli. However, weak and slow actuations …

Active materials for functional origami

S Leanza, S Wu, X Sun, HJ Qi, RR Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures.
These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used toward …

Hydrogels for bioinspired soft robots

CS Park, YW Kang, H Na, JY Sun - Progress in Polymer Science, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Amid the ever-advancing landscape of industrial robotics, soft robots in particular have
attracted substantial attention due to their remarkable structural adaptability and high …

Hydrogel sensors for biomedical electronics

J Ma, J Zhong, F Sun, B Liu, Z Peng, J Lian… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Hydrogels and their sensors are emerging as key players in biomedical electronics, offering
flexible, programmable structures and functions. Hydrogel-based sensors with stress–strain …

Bio‐inspired structure‐editing fluorescent hydrogel actuators for environment‐interactive information encryption

R Wang, Y Zhang, W Lu, B Wu, S Wei… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many living organisms have the superb structure‐editing capacity for better adaptation in
dynamic environments over the course of their life cycle. However, it's still challenging to …