Bioinspired multiphase composite gel materials: From controlled micro-phase separation to multiple functionalities

Y Yang, Y Ru, T Zhao, M Liu - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Phase separation in living organisms is essential for the execution of biological functions, for
example, the formation of membrane-less organelles and the functionalization of …

Additive manufacturing of polymer‐based lubrication

KR Hossain, P Jiang, X Yao, J Wu, D Hu… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The fast growth of 3D printing technology gives designers many ways to make structures that
are hard to see. 3D printing lets you customize complex structures in any way you want and …

Entropy‐mediated polymer–cluster interactions enable dramatic thermal stiffening hydrogels for mechanoadaptive smart fabrics

J Wu, B Wu, J Xiong, S Sun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Touch-responsive hydrogel for biomimetic flytrap-like soft actuator

J Wei, R Li, L Li, W Wang, T Chen - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
Stimuli-responsive hydrogel is regarded as one of the most promising smart soft materials
for the next-generation advanced technologies and intelligence robots, but the limited …

Thermally trainable dual network hydrogels

S Hu, Y Fang, C Liang, M Turunen, O Ikkala… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inspired by biological systems, trainable responsive materials have received burgeoning
research interests for future adaptive and intelligent material systems. However, the …

A sweat-pH-enabled strongly adhesive hydrogel for self-powered e-skin applications

L Zhang, S Wang, Z Wang, Z Huang, P Sun… - Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
On-skin hydrogel electrodes are poorly conformable in sweaty scenarios due to low
electrode–skin adhesion resulting from the sweat film formed on the skin surface, which …

Regulable mixed‐solvent‐induced phase separation in hydrogels for information encryption

M Li, H Lu, X Wang, Z Wang, M Pi, W Cui, R Ran - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid progress of information technology is accompanied by plenty of information
embezzlement and forgery, but developing advanced encryption technologies to ensure …

Bilayer hydrogels with low friction and high load-bearing capacity by mimicking the oriented hierarchical structure of cartilage

Q Chen, X Zhang, K Chen, C Feng… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Natural articular cartilages exhibit extraordinary lubricating properties and excellent load-
bearing capacity based on their penetrated surface lubricated biomacromolecules and …

Friction induced mechanochemistry: self-adaptive lubrication through in-situ tribo-click system

R Dong, Y Zhang, HZ Xu, L Bao, S Ma, XG Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The friction, which commonly exist on moving mechanical interfaces, accounts for structure
damage and energy consumption. Traditional lubricating protection strategy mainly focus on …

Bicontinuous vitrimer heterogels with wide-span switchable stiffness-gated iontronic coordination

Z Zhao, Z Cao, Z Wu, W Du, X Meng, H Chen, Y Wu… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Currently, it remains challenging to balance intrinsic stiffness with programmability in most
vitrimers. Simultaneously, coordinating materials with gel-like iontronic properties for …