Hydrogel‐based flexible electronics

L Hu, PL Chee, S Sugiarto, Y Yu, C Shi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible electronics is an emerging field of research involving multiple disciplines, which
include but not limited to physics, chemistry, materials science, electronic engineering, and …

Soft materials by design: unconventional polymer networks give extreme properties

X Zhao, X Chen, H Yuk, S Lin, X Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are polymer networks infiltrated with water. Many biological hydrogels in animal
bodies such as muscles, heart valves, cartilages, and tendons possess extreme mechanical …

Hydrogel machines

X Liu, J Liu, S Lin, X Zhao - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
As polymer networks infiltrated with water, hydrogels constitute the major components of the
human body; and hydrogels have been widely used in applications that closely interact with …

Bioresponsive materials

Y Lu, AA Aimetti, R Langer, Z Gu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract 'Smart'bioresponsive materials that are sensitive to biological signals or to
pathological abnormalities, and interact with or are actuated by them, are appealing …

pH sensitive hydrogels in drug delivery: Brief history, properties, swelling, and release mechanism, material selection and applications

M Rizwan, R Yahya, A Hassan, M Yar, AD Azzahari… - Polymers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Improving the safety efficacy ratio of existing drugs is a current challenge to be addressed
rather than the development of novel drugs which involve much expense and time. The …

Self‐assembled peptide‐based nanomaterials for biomedical imaging and therapy

GB Qi, YJ Gao, L Wang, H Wang - Advanced materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Peptide‐based materials are one of the most important biomaterials, with diverse structures
and functionalities. Over the past few decades, a self‐assembly strategy is introduced to …

Stimulus-responsive hydrogels: Theory, modern advances, and applications

MC Koetting, JT Peters, SD Steichen… - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the past century, hydrogels have emerged as effective materials for an immense variety
of applications. The unique network structure of hydrogels enables very high levels of …

Bioinspired fabrication of high strength hydrogels from non-covalent interactions

W Wang, Y Zhang, W Liu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2017 - Elsevier
In nature, many soft supporting tissues capable of withstanding multiform external forces
during various activities consist of high strength hydrogels (HSHGs) in their delicately …

Injectable hydrogels delivering therapeutic agents for disease treatment and tissue engineering

JH Lee - Biomaterials research, 2018 - spj.science.org
Background Injectable hydrogels have been extensively researched for the use as scaffolds
or as carriers of therapeutic agents such as drugs, cells, proteins, and bioactive molecules in …

Transformable liquid-metal nanomedicine

Y Lu, Q Hu, Y Lin, DB Pacardo, C Wang, W Sun… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
To date, numerous inorganic nanocarriers have been explored for drug delivery systems
(DDSs). However, the clinical application of inorganic formulations has often been hindered …