Hydrogels and hydrogel-derived materials for energy and water sustainability

Y Guo, J Bae, Z Fang, P Li, F Zhao, G Yu - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
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 …

Multifunctional conductive hydrogel-based flexible wearable sensors

L Wang, T Xu, X Zhang - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexible sensors have shown great potential in remote health monitoring, body movements
track, electronic skin, human-machine interfaces, and soft robotics. Hydrogels possess …

Multifunctional hydrogel as wound dressing for intelligent wound monitoring

L Wang, M Zhou, T Xu, X Zhang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Chronic wound remains a significant challenge in clinical care due to the long treatment
process and the poor quality of tissue regeneration affected by bacterial infection, calling …

Catechol-functionalized hydrogels: biomimetic design, adhesion mechanism, and biomedical applications

W Zhang, R Wang, ZM Sun, X Zhu, Q Zhao… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogels are a unique class of polymeric materials that possess an interconnected porous
network across various length scales from nano-to macroscopic dimensions and exhibit …

Hydrogel-based commercial products for biomedical applications: A review

S Cascone, G Lamberti - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymer networks, able to absorb large amount of water,
increasing their volume and showing a plethora of different material behaviors. Since their …

Stimuli‐responsive biomolecule‐based hydrogels and their applications

M Vázquez‐González, I Willner - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This Review presents polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, nucleic acids, peptides, and
proteins as functional stimuli‐responsive polymer scaffolds that yield hydrogels with …

Tailoring the Swelling‐Shrinkable Behavior of Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

W Feng, Z Wang - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels with tailor‐made swelling‐shrinkable properties have aroused considerable
interest in numerous biomedical domains. For example, as swelling is a key issue for blood …

Recent progress of highly adhesive hydrogels as wound dressings

L Zhang, M Liu, Y Zhang, R Pei - Biomacromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wound dressings are widely used to promote wound healing. Traditional dressings need the
help of tape to fix onto the wounds, which are not suitable in the human body. In addition …

Environmentally Adaptive Polymer Hydrogels: Maintaining Wet‐Soft Features in Extreme Conditions

K Lei, M Chen, P Guo, J Fang, J Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels have been widely explored to adapt to different application circumstances. As
typical wet‐soft materials, the high‐water content of hydrogels is beneficial to their wide …

Electrically conductive hydrogels for flexible energy storage systems

W Zhang, P Feng, J Chen, Z Sun, B Zhao - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
To power wearable electronic devices, various flexible energy storage systems have been
designed to work in consecutive bending, stretching and even twisting conditions …