Self‐Healing Hydrogels: Mechanisms and Biomedical Applications [PDF]
MedCommHydrogels have emerged as dependable candidates for tissue repair because of their exceptional biocompatibility and tunable mechanical properties. However, conventional hydrogels are vulnerable to damage owing to mechanical stress and environmental ...
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3D-printed self-healing hydrogels via Digital Light Processing [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Self-healing hydrogels can mimic the damage repair behaviour of living tissues, but such hydrogels have only been processed via extrusion-based additive manufacturing technology.
Matteo Caprioli +5 more
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Self-healing hydrogels for bone defect repair. [PDF]
RSC Adv, 2023 Severe bone defects can be caused by various factors, such as tumor resection, severe trauma, and infection. However, bone regeneration capacity is limited up to a critical-size defect, and further intervention is required.
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Self‐Healing Hydrogels: The Next Paradigm Shift in Tissue Engineering? [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2019 Given their durability and long‐term stability, self‐healable hydrogels have, in the past few years, emerged as promising replacements for the many brittle hydrogels currently being used in preclinical or clinical trials. To this end, the incompatibility
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Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Self-healing Hydrogels [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018 Hydrogels, which are crosslinked polymer networks with high water contents and rheological solid-like properties, are attractive materials for biomedical applications.
Yi Liu, Shan-hui Hsu, Shan-hui Hsu
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Rapid Preparation of Superabsorbent Self-Healing Hydrogels by Frontal Polymerization [PDF]
Gels, 2023 Hydrogels have received increasing interest owing to their excellent physicochemical properties and wide applications. In this paper, we report the rapid fabrication of new hydrogels possessing a super water swelling capacity and self-healing ability ...
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Stiff and self-healing hydrogels by polymer entanglements in co-planar nanoconfinement. [PDF]
Nat MaterMany biological tissues are mechanically strong and stiff but can still heal from damage. By contrast, synthetic hydrogels have not shown comparable combinations of properties, as current stiffening approaches inevitably suppress the required chain/bond ...
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Role of Hydrophobic Associations in Self-Healing Hydrogels Based on Amphiphilic Polysaccharides. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2023 Self-healing hydrogels have the ability to recover their original properties after the action of an external stress, due to presence in their structure of reversible chemical or physical cross-links.
Nichifor M.
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Self-Healing Hydrogels: Development, Biomedical Applications, and Challenges. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2022 Polymeric hydrogels have drawn considerable attention as a biomedical material for their unique mechanical and chemical properties, which are very similar to natural tissues.
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Self-Healing Hydrogels: Preparation, Mechanism and Advancement in Biomedical Applications. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2021 Polymeric hydrogels are widely explored materials for biomedical applications. However, they have inherent limitations like poor resistance to stimuli and low mechanical strength.
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