Design principles for strong and tough hydrogels

X Li, JP Gong - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks swollen with water. Owing to their soft and
water-containing nature, hydrogels are promising materials for applications in many fields …

Mechanical Design Principles of Conductive Gels Applied for Flexible Electronics

Y Fang, Z Bai, W Xu, X Xiong, J Wei… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reaping the benefits of the burgeoning investigation of gels in recent decades, flexible
electronics based on conductive gels have been extensively explored. Gels consisting of …

Tailoring Physicochemical Properties of Photothermal Hydrogels Toward Intrinsically Regenerative Therapies

T Xiao, H Dai, Y Wu, Z Liu, J Yeow… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photothermal hydrogels (PTHs) are considered next‐generation biomaterials as they offer
remotely defined biophysical information of the extracellular milieu. PTHs allow precise and …

Control of polymers' amorphous-crystalline transition enables miniaturization and multifunctional integration for hydrogel bioelectronics

S Huang, X Liu, S Lin, C Glynn, K Felix… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Soft bioelectronic devices exhibit motion-adaptive properties for neural interfaces to
investigate complex neural circuits. Here, we develop a fabrication approach through the …

Hydrogel Fibers‐Based Biointerfacing

X Chen, Y Feng, P Zhang, Z Ni, Y Xue… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The unique 1D structure of fibers offers intriguing attributes, including a high length‐to‐
diameter ratio, miniatured size, light‐weight, and flexibility, making them suitable for various …

Biofluid-Permeable and Erosion-Resistant Wireless Neural-Electronic Interfaces for Neurohomeostasis Modulation

Z Wei, F Jin, T Li, Y He, L Qian, J Ma, T Yuan, X Yu… - ACS …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Neural-electronic interfaces through delivering electroceuticals to lesions and modulating
pathological endogenous electrical environments offer exciting opportunities to treat drug …

Fabrication and Characterization of PDMS Waveguides for Flexible Optrodes

L Rudmann, D Scholz, MT Alt, A Dieter… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
With the growth of optogenetic research, the demand for optical probes tailored to specific
applications is ever rising. Specifically, for applications like the coiled cochlea of the inner …

Charge-Conversion-Induced Complexation Toughening of Adaptive and Degradable Protein Optical Fibers for Interventional Cancer Therapy

Z Lu, H Xue, X He, B Qiao, K Li, P Zhang… - ACS Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Protein hydrogel fibers hold great promise for diverse applications. However, the challenge
lies in developing rapid and straightforward methods for the one-step fabrication of high …

Spider-silk-inspired strong and tough hydrogel fibers with anti-freezing and water retention properties

S Wu, Z Liu, C Gong, W Li, S Xu, R Wen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ideal hydrogel fibers with high toughness and environmental tolerance are indispensable for
their long-term application in flexible electronics as actuating and sensing elements …

Highly Stretchable and Luminescent Polymer Hydrogels Cross-Linked by a Minute Amount of Water-Soluble Lanthanide Organic Polyhedra

Y Liang, P Zhao, Z Yan, Q Zhang, Y Liu… - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polymer networks cross-linked by the metal–organic polyhedra have attracted dramatic
attention in recent years due to the high degrees of freedom in tuning their structures and …