Ziguang Zhao

TL;DR: The critical design criteria and the state-of-the-art fabrication strategies of nanocomposite hydrogels with highly ordered structures are systemically reviewed and recent progress in applications in the fields of soft actuators, tissue engineering, and sensors is highlighted.

TL;DR: The organogel component can inhibit the ice crystallization of the hydrogel component, thus enhancing the mechanical stability of organohydrogel over a wide temperature range (−78 to 80 °C), and may have promising applications in complex and harsh environments.

TL;DR: This study reports a general and synergistic strategy to fabricate high-strain and tough shape memory organohydrogels that feature binary cooperative phase and are nonswellable in water and oil, which is important for multimedia applications.

TL;DR: Programmable organohydrogels with multistable mechanical states with precisely controllable thermo-induced stepwise switching mechanics are constructed by an on-demand modular assembly of noneutectic phase transition components inside microrganogel inclusions and demonstrated the applicability in lifelike soft robotics in unconstructed and human body environments.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fabrication strategy for biphasic gels is reported, which incorporates high internal-phase emulsions and closely packed micro-inclusions within the elastic hydrogel matrix greatly improve the mechanical properties of the materials.