Energy and water are of fundamental importance for our modern society, and advanced
technologies on sustainable energy storage and conversion as well as water resource …

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 …

Hydrogels are promising as materials for soft actuators because of qualities such as
softness, transparency, and responsiveness to stimuli. However, weak and slow actuations …

Polymer networks are complex systems consisting of molecular components. Whereas the
properties of the individual components are typically well understood by most chemists …

Over the past few years, with the development of global industry and the increase of
population, the shortage of freshwater resources has prompted people to conduct in-depth …

Hydrogel delivery systems can leverage therapeutically beneficial outcomes of drug delivery
and have found clinical use. Hydrogels can provide spatial and temporal control over the …

Hydrogels consist of hydrophilic polymer networks dispersed in water. Many applications of
hydrogels rely on their unique combination of solid‐like mechanical behavior and water‐like …

Hydrogels have been developed since the 1960s for applications in personal care,
medicine, and engineering. Evidence has accumulated that hydrogels under prolonged …

Most hydrogels have poor mechanical properties, severely limiting their scope of
applications. Here a hybrid hydrogel, consisting of hydrophilic and crystalline polymer …

Hydrogels are materials widely used in countless applications, particularly in the biomedical,
pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical fields, because of their biocompatibility and their …