Recent Advances in Design Strategies of Tough Hydrogels.
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DOI: 10.1002/marc.202200075
Abstract: Hydrogels are a fascinating class of materials popular in numerous fields, including tissue engineering, drug delivery, soft robotics, and sensors, attributed to their 3D network porous structure containing a significant amount of water. However, traditional… read more here.
Keywords: tough hydrogels; strategies tough; design strategies; design ... See more keywords
Fatigue fracture of tough hydrogels
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2017.07.002
Abstract: Abstract Tough hydrogels of many chemical compositions have been developed in recent years, but their fatigue fracture has not been studied. The lack of study hinders further development of hydrogels for applications that require long… read more here.
Keywords: tough hydrogels; hydrogel; fatigue fracture; fracture ... See more keywords
Graphene Hybrid Tough Hydrogels with Nanostructures for Tissue Regeneration.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04188
Abstract: Over the past few decades, hydrogels have attracted considerable attention as promising biomedical materials. However, conventional hydrogels require improved mechanical properties, such as brittleness, which significantly limits their widespread use. Recently, hydrogels with remarkably improved… read more here.
Keywords: hybrid tough; tissue regeneration; graphene hybrid; tough hydrogels ... See more keywords
Muscle Contraction-Inspired Tough Hydrogels.
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DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c20319
Abstract: In many animals, tough skeletal muscle contraction occurs, producing a strong force through myofilaments attaching to and sliding on fibrous actin filaments. In contrast, the strength of typical synthetic hydrogels is facilitated mainly by polymeric… read more here.
Keywords: contraction inspired; tough hydrogels; muscle contraction; inspired tough ... See more keywords
Visible-Light-Mediated Nano-biomineralization of Customizable Tough Hydrogels for Biomimetic Tissue Engineering.
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DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c11589
Abstract: Biomineralized tough hydrogels (BTHs) have advanced applications in the fields of soft bioelectronics and biomimetic tissue engineering. But the development of rapid and general photomineralization strategies for one-step fabrication of customizable BTHs is still a… read more here.
Keywords: tough hydrogels; biomimetic tissue; tissue engineering; biomineralization ... See more keywords
Concentric ice-templating of ultracompressible tough hydrogels with bioinspired circumferentially aligned architecture
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv7786
Abstract: Materials with circumferentially aligned fibers, such as intervertebral discs and arteries, are abundant in nature but challenging to replicate artificially, despite their mechanical advantages. Although ice-templating can create bioinspired materials, the achievable structures remain limited… read more here.
Keywords: ice templating; tough hydrogels; ice; circumferentially aligned ... See more keywords
Tough Hydrogels Based on Maleic Anhydride, Bulk Properties Study and Microfiber Formation by Electrospinning
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DOI: 10.3390/polym13060972
Abstract: Hydrogels present a great number of advantages, such as their swelling capacity or their capability to mimic tissues, which make them very interesting biomaterials. However, one of their main disadvantages is their lack of good… read more here.
Keywords: tough hydrogels; maleic anhydride; based maleic; hydrogels based ... See more keywords