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Advanced Materials, 2016 Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of interest in the development of hydrogel materials with tunable structural, mechanical, and rheological properties, which exhibit rapid and autonomous self‐healing and self‐recovery for utilization in a broad range of applications, from soft robotics to tissue engineering.
Marc In Het Panhuis
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Rational Design of Self-Healing Hydrogel with High Mechanical Strength and Self-Healing Efficiency: A Short Review [PDF]
GelsSelf-healing hydrogels, a novel class of “smart” hydrogels, possess the ability to autonomously restore their network structure and mechanical properties following damage through the reconnection of a fractured three-dimensional network via reversible ...
Xiaogang Yu +3 more
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Corrosion Barrier Coatings: Progress and Perspectives of the Chemical Route
Corrosion and Materials Degradation, 2022 Improved corrosion barrier coatings (CBCs) to protect metals will allow future metal structures to operate for extended periods, ensuring improved safety by reducing environmental pollution and maintenance costs.
George Kordas
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Nanocontainers for Energy Storage and Conversion Applications: A Mini-Review
Nanomanufacturing, 2023 Countries that do not have oil and natural gas but are forced to reduce pollution due to combustion have stimulated and developed new technologies for absorption, storage, and energy creation based on nanotechnology.
George Kordas
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Nanomanufacturing, 2023 The self-healing of cementitious materials can be achieved by precipitation of calcium carbonate through the enzymatic hydrolysis of urea. When a crack appears in cement, the damage can be repaired by allowing bacteria to encounter the water seeping ...
George Kordas
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All-Purpose Nano- and Microcontainers: A Review of the New Engineering Possibilities
Eng, 2022 Recently, a subcategory of nanotechnology—nano-, and microcontainers—has developed rapidly, with unexpected results. By nano- and microcontainers, we mean hollow spherical structures whose shells can be organic or inorganic.
George Kordas
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Early Warning on Mass Imbalance and Clean-in-Place Strategy for Rotor of Rotating Packed Bed
IEEE Access, 2020 Rotating packed bed is a new high-gravity gas-liquid mass-transfer equipment. The gas-liquid phase chemically reacts to the wire mesh packing of the rotor, and solid products easily adhere to the wire mesh packing, resulting in rotor vibration caused by ...
Zhenghui Zhang +3 more
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Charge‐Selectively Permeable Self‐Healing Microcapsules
Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2023 Microcapsules possessing a selective permeability are well‐suited vessels for conducting cell studies or chemical reactions that require selective exchanges of reagents over a prolonged time.
Chuen‐Ru Li +2 more
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Self‐Regulated Self‐Healing Robotic Gripper for Resilient and Adaptive Grasping
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Flexible, soft materials are increasingly used for the fabrication of soft robots, as the inherent compliance and shock‐absorbance protect the robot from mechanical impact.
Huijiang Wang +5 more
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Natural Dual‐Crosslinked Self‐Healing Hydrogels for In Situ Wound Healing
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 2022 Poly(l‐glutamic acid) (PLGA), a polypeptide prepared by bacteria fermentation, has broad applications in tissue engineering. A natural host–guest pair of β‐cyclodextrin (β‐CD) and bile acid molecules are attached covalently onto the PLGA backbones ...
Yushi Wang +7 more
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