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Flexible MXene-Decorated Fabric with Interwoven Conductive Networks for Integrated Joule Heating, Electromagnetic Interference Shielding, and Strain Sensing Performances

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Cooking‐Inspired Versatile Design of an Ultrastrong and Tough Polysaccharide Hydrogel through Programmed Supramolecular Interactions

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Polyethylene Aerogels with Combined Physical and Chemical Crosslinking: Improved Mechanical Resilience and Shape-Memory Properties

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Physically Cross-Linked Double-Network Hydrogel for High-Performance Oil–Water Separation Mesh

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Highly Elastic and Ultratough Hybrid Ionic-Covalent Hydrogels with Tunable Structures and Mechanics

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Strong and tough fully physically crosslinked double network hydrogels with tunable mechanics and high self-healing performance

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Design of a tunable nanocomposite double network hydrogel based on gellan gum for drug delivery applications

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Exploring the Role of Nanoparticles in Enhancing Mechanical Properties of Hydrogel Nanocomposites

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Designing toughness and strength for soft materials

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Photoresponsive Polysaccharide-Based Hydrogels with Tunable Mechanical Properties for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

(2016) Giuseppe E. Giammanco et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Highly Stretchable, Strain Sensing Hydrogel Optical Fibers

(2016) Jingjing Guo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A new strategy for fabrication of bone scaffolds using electrospun nano-HAp/PHB fibers and protein hydrogels

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Deterministic encapsulation of single cells in thin tunable microgels for niche modelling and therapeutic delivery

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A practical guide to hydrogels for cell culture

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Synergistic Toughening of Graphene Oxide–Molybdenum Disulfide–Thermoplastic Polyurethane Ternary Artificial Nacre

(2015) Sijie Wan et al.   ACS Nano

Molecularly Engineered Dual-Crosslinked Hydrogel with Ultrahigh Mechanical Strength, Toughness, and Good Self-Recovery

(2015) Peng Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Control of hierarchical polymer mechanics with bioinspired metal-coordination dynamics

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Self-Healing Multiphase Polymers via Dynamic Metal–Ligand Interactions

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Strengthening Alginate/Polyacrylamide Hydrogels Using Various Multivalent Cations

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Composite Three-Dimensional Woven Scaffolds with Interpenetrating Network Hydrogels to Create Functional Synthetic Articular Cartilage

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Porous Gelatin-Alginate-Polyacrylamide Scaffolds with Interpenetrating Network Structure: Synthesis and Characterization

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