Programmed Multiresponsive Hydrogel Assemblies with Light‐Tunable Mechanical Properties, Actuation, and Fluorescence
Dongdong Lu,Mingning Zhu,Shanglin Wu,Qing Lian,Wenkai Wang,Daman J. Adlam,Judith A. Hoyland,Brian R. Saunders +7 more
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The PRLDA method provides new insight into programmed gel property control and has excellent potential for biomaterial and optoelectronic applications.About:
This article is published in Advanced Functional Materials.The article was published on 2020-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 36 citations till now.read more
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Stimuli-responsive functional materials for soft robotics
TL;DR: This review covers five representative types of soft stimuli-responsive functional materials, namely (i) dielectric elastomers, (ii) hydrogels, (iii) shape memory polymers, (iv) liquid crystal elastomer, and (v) magnetic materials, with focuses on their inherent material properties, working mechanisms, and design strategies for actuation and sensing.
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Reconstructable Gradient Structures and Reprogrammable 3D Deformations of Hydrogels with Coumarin Units as the Photolabile Crosslinks
TL;DR: In this paper, a photo-crosslink-based reprogramming of the gradient structures and 3D deformations of a hydrogel is presented. But existing gradient structures of hydrogels are usually non-reconstructable, once encoded by chemical reactions and covalent bonds.
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Stimuli-responsive hydrogels: Fabrication and biomedical applications
TL;DR: This review presents typical synthetic and natural gelators comprising small molecules and polymers as building blocks of functional architectures and discusses the fabrication strategies of hydrogels varied from supramolecular assembly to dynamic covalent binding.
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Mimicking Color-Changing Organisms to Enable the Multicolors and Multifunctions of Smart Fluorescent Polymeric Hydrogels.
TL;DR: The unique hierarchical multilayer structures of skin chromatophores in structural color-changing reptiles are introduced, followed by an in-depth discussion on how a rational integration of bioinspiration and man-made design makes it possible to largely expand the fluorescence color- changing range of smart FPHs to almost cover the whole visible spectrum.
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TL;DR: The properties of hydrogels that are important for tissue engineering applications and the inherent material design constraints and challenges are discussed.