Researchers have developed a hydrogel-based strain sensor that measures blood potassium from a single drop of serum in two ...

What are hydrogels, and what are they used for? These water-absorbing polymer networks have applications in drug delivery, ...

Now, a team of researchers has developed a hydrogel with a unique structure that overcomes earlier limitations, opening the door to applications such as drug delivery, wound healing, soft robotics ...

Addressing this, Professor Gong’s research team has recently developed a rapid self-strengthening hydrogel technology using weak chemical bond cleavage for activation. For this, they modified a ...

Now, a team of researchers from Aalto University and the University of Bayreuth are the first to develop a hydrogel with a unique structure that overcomes earlier limitations, opening the door to ...

More information: Reina Hagiwara et al, Bioinspired hydrogels: polymeric designs towards artificial photosynthesis, Chemical ...

Based in fundamental materials science, the group synthesizes cytocompatible and cell-instructive biomaterials, often from biopolymers (e.g., hyaluronic acid) that are crosslinked into water-swollen ...

Addition of a photodegradable group to the backbone of synthetic hydrogels enables real-time control of the material's chemical and physical properties. The techniques allow for observation of ...