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Soft and flexible hydrogel templates of different sizes and various functionalities for metal nanoparticle preparation and their use in catalysis
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In this article, a flexible and highly adaptable platform for the design of soft and versatile interfaces with an outlook toward their use in material science, engineering and catalysis for in situ metal nanoparticle preparation within hydrogels for the catalysis purpose is addressed.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 270 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Self-healing hydrogels & Nanogel.read more
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Catechol-functionalized hydrogels: biomimetic design, adhesion mechanism, and biomedical applications.
Wei Zhang,Ruixing Wang,ZhengMing Sun,Xiangwei Zhu,Qiang Zhao,Tengfei Zhang,Aleksander Cholewinski,Fut K. Yang,Boxin Zhao,Rattapol Pinnaratip,Pegah Kord Forooshani,Bruce P. Lee +11 more
TL;DR: This review is structured to give a comprehensive overview of adhesive hydrogels starting with the fundamental challenges of underwater adhesion, followed by synthetic approaches and fabrication techniques, as well as characterization methods, and their practical applications in tissue repair and regeneration, antifouling and antimicrobial applications, drug delivery, and cell encapsulation and delivery.
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Recent progress in sodium alginate based sustainable hydrogels for environmental applications
Sourbh Thakur,B. K. Sharma,Ankit Verma,Jyoti Chaudhary,Sigitas Tamulevičius,Vijay Kumar Thakur +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review article is presented on the recent advances in the modifications of sodium alginate based hydrogels for the adsorptive removal of toxic pollutants and also briefly gives the classification and properties of hydrogel and alginates.
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Recent trends in hydrogels based on psyllium polysaccharide: a review
TL;DR: This article summarizes for the first time, the recent development in psyllium polysaccharide based hydrogels and comprehensively discusses the structure-property relationships of poly Saccharide hydrogel and highlights the application potential for prime performance of the resultinghydrogels.
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Antimicrobial hydrogels: promising materials for medical application.
TL;DR: In this review, studies from the past 5 years were reviewed, and several types of antimicrobial hydrogels according to different ingredients, different preparations, different antimicrobial mechanisms,Different antimicrobial agents they contained and different applications, were summarized.
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Electrically conductive hydrogels for flexible energy storage systems
TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes the material design and synthetic approach of ECHs, demonstrating the advances of percolation theory in ECH materials, and subsequently presents their effective application in flexible energy storage systems and discusses the challenges and opportunities in this field.
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