Designing self-healing hydrogels for biomedical applications

X Ding, L Fan, L Wang, M Zhou, Y Wang, Y Zhao - Materials Horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-healing hydrogels have emerged as the most promising alternatives to conventional
brittle hydrogels used in the biomedical field due to the features of long-term stability and …

Advances in biomedical applications of self-healing hydrogels

H Rammal, A GhavamiNejad, A Erdem… - Materials Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogels are important biomaterials that have several applications in drug and cell
delivery, tissue engineering, three-dimensional (3D) printing and more recently, in sensing …

Self-healing hydrogels: from synthesis to multiple applications

H Yin, F Liu, T Abdiryim, X Liu - ACS Materials Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Due to the good reliability and long-term stability, self-healing hydrogels have emerged as
promising soft materials for tissue engineering, smart wearable sensors, bioelectronics, and …

Self‐healing hydrogels

DL Taylor, M in het Panhuis - Advanced Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of interest in the development of
hydrogel materials with tunable structural, mechanical, and rheological properties, which …

Advances and progress in self-healing hydrogel and its application in regenerative medicine

W Zhu, J Zhang, Z Wei, B Zhang, X Weng - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
A hydrogel is a three-dimensional structure that holds plenty of water, but brittleness largely
limits its application. Self-healing hydrogels, a new type of hydrogel that can be repaired by …

[HTML][HTML] Biopolymer-based self-healing hydrogels: A short review

X Wang, HJ Zhang, Y Yang, Y Chen, X Zhu, X You - Giant, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogels as semi-solid materials with highly tunable mechanical properties are promising
materials in numerous fields. The emergence of self-healing hydrogels, with the ability to …

Rational design of self-healing tough hydrogels: a mini review

W Wang, R Narain, H Zeng - Frontiers in chemistry, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Hydrogels are three-dimensional cross-linked polymer networks which can absorb and
retain large amount of water. As representative soft materials with tunable chemical, physical …

Self-healing hydrogels: Development, biomedical applications, and challenges

MMH Rumon, AA Akib, F Sultana, M Moniruzzaman… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polymeric hydrogels have drawn considerable attention as a biomedical material for their
unique mechanical and chemical properties, which are very similar to natural tissues …

The design, mechanism and biomedical application of self-healing hydrogels

Q Li, C Liu, J Wen, Y Wu, Y Shan, J Liao - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are promising materials with outstanding characteristics such as tunable and
reversible physical/chemical properties, stimuli-responsiveness, biomimetic, and …

[HTML][HTML] Self-healing hydrogels based on reversible noncovalent and dynamic covalent interactions: A short review

M Wu, L Han, B Yan, H Zeng - Supramolecular Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The self-healing capability of a material refers to its ability to autonomously heal fractures or
defects and restore its original structures and functionalities. Self-healing hydrogels, with …