Bone tissue engineering is pivotal in facilitating bone reconstruction by promoting persistent
angiogenesis and osteogenesis. Initially, the hot gel composite hydrogel scaffold technique …

This article reviews the state of the art of the studies on charge regulation (CR) effects in
flexible weak polyelectrolytes (FWPE). The characteristic of FWPE is the strong coupling of …

Most thermodynamic modeling of hydrogels is built on Flory's theories for the entropy of
mixing and rubber elasticity, and Donnan's equilibrium conditions if polyelectrolyte polymer …

We model a process of seawater desalination that employs compression of a weak
polyelectrolyte hydrogel as the drawing force for ion transfer. We model seawater as an …

We use molecular simulation to investigate the pH response of sequence-controlled
polyampholyte brushes (PABs) with polymer chains consisting of alternating blocks of …

Stimuli-responsive hydrogels (SRHs) were prepared by thermal free radical redox
polymerization in the aqueous solution of N-isopropyl acrylamide (NIPAAm), acrylamide …

Polyelectrolyte hydrogels can absorb a large amount of water across an osmotic membrane
as a result of their swelling pressure. On the other hand, the insoluble cross-linked hydrogel …

The swelling of polyelectrolyte hydrogels has been often explained using simple models
derived from the Flory–Rehner model. While these models qualitatively predict the …

Polyelectrolyte gels can generate electric potentials under mechanical deformation. While
the underlying mechanism of such a response is often attributed to changes in counterion …

Polyelectrolyte gels provide a load-bearing structural framework for many macroscopic
biological tissues, along with the organelles within the cells composing tissues and the …