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 …

Development of conductive hydrogels for fabricating flexible strain sensors

G Li, C Li, G Li, D Yu, Z Song, H Wang, X Liu, H Liu… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Conductive hydrogels can be prepared by incorporating various conductive materials into
polymeric network hydrogels. In recent years, conductive hydrogels have been developed …

Structurally dynamic hydrogels for biomedical applications: pursuing a fine balance between macroscopic stability and microscopic dynamics

K Zhang, Q Feng, Z Fang, L Gu, L Bian - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Owing to their unique chemical and physical properties, hydrogels are attracting increasing
attention in both basic and translational biomedical studies. Although the classical hydrogels …

Key approaches and challenges in fabricating advanced flexible zinc-ion batteries with functional hydrogel electrolytes

X Li, D Wang, F Ran - Energy Storage Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent years, a great deal of investigation has been performed on the design and
fabrication of the flexible zinc-ion batteries ascribing to their decent capacity, affordable …

A multi-responsive healable supercapacitor

H Qin, P Liu, C Chen, HP Cong, SH Yu - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Self-healability is essential for supercapacitors to improve their reliability and lifespan when
powering the electronics. However, the lack of a universal healing mechanism leads to low …

A review on self-healing polymers for soft robotics

S Terryn, J Langenbach, E Roels, J Brancart… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The intrinsic compliance of soft robots provides safety, a natural adaptation to its
environment, allows to absorb shocks, and protects them against mechanical impacts …

Transition-metal coordinate bonds for bioinspired macromolecules with tunable mechanical properties

E Khare, N Holten-Andersen, MJ Buehler - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Transition-metal coordination complexes are emerging as a broad class of supramolecular
crosslinks that can be used to engineer the mechanical properties of advanced structural …

Universally autonomous self-healing elastomer with high stretchability

H Guo, Y Han, W Zhao, J Yang, L Zhang - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Developing autonomous self-healing materials for applications in harsh conditions is
challenging because the reconstruction of interaction in material for self-healing will …

A fast room‐temperature self‐healing glassy polyurethane

JH Xu, JY Chen, YN Zhang, T Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We designed and synthesized a colorless transparent glassy polyurethane assembled using
low‐molecular‐weight oligomers carrying a large number of loosely packed weak hydrogen …

Self‐healing polymers based on coordination bonds

CH Li, JL Zuo - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐healing ability is an important survival feature in nature, with which living beings can
spontaneously repair damage when wounded. Inspired by nature, people have designed …