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

"Nonswellable" Hydrogel Without Mechanical Hysteresis

(2014) H. Kamata et al.   SCIENCE

Hybrid Hydrogels with Extremely High Stiffness and Toughness

(2014) Jianyu Li et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Strengthening Alginate/Polyacrylamide Hydrogels Using Various Multivalent Cations

(2013) Can Hui Yang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Robust, One-Pot Synthesis of Highly Mechanical and Recoverable Double Network Hydrogels Using Thermoreversible Sol-Gel Polysaccharide

(2013) Qiang Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Stretchable and Self-Healing Graphene Oxide–Polymer Composite Hydrogels: A Dual-Network Design

(2013) Huai-Ping Cong et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Facile Fabrication of Tough Hydrogels Physically Cross-Linked by Strong Cooperative Hydrogen Bonding

(2013) Guoshan Song et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Viscoelastic Properties of Poly(vinyl alcohol) Hydrogels Having Permanent and Transient Cross-Links Studied by Microrheology, Classical Rheometry, and Dynamic Light Scattering

(2013) Tetsuharu Narita et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Physical hydrogels composed of polyampholytes demonstrate high toughness and viscoelasticity

(2013) Tao Lin Sun et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Autonomous self-healing of poly(acrylic acid) hydrogels induced by the migration of ferric ions

(2013) Zengjiang Wei et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Highly Elastic and Superstretchable Graphene Oxide/Polyacrylamide Hydrogels

(2013) Huai-Ping Cong et al.   Small

Stress–Strain Relationship of Highly Stretchable Dual Cross-Link Gels: Separability of Strain and Time Effect

(2013) Koichi Mayumi et al.   ACS Macro Letters

A Strong Bio-Inspired Layered PNIPAM-Clay Nanocomposite Hydrogel

(2012) Jianfeng Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels

(2012) Jeong-Yun Sun et al.   NATURE

Microgel-Reinforced Hydrogel Films with High Mechanical Strength and Their Visible Mesoscale Fracture Structure

(2011) Jian Hu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Tough and Self-Healing Hydrogels Formed via Hydrophobic Interactions

(2011) Deniz C. Tuncaboylu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Optically healable supramolecular polymers

(2011) Mark Burnworth et al.   NATURE

Stimuli-Responsive Porous Hydrogels at Interfaces for Molecular Filtration, Separation, Controlled Release, and Gating in Capsules and Membranes

(2010) Ihor Tokarev et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ionically Cross-Linked Triblock Copolymer Hydrogels with High Strength

(2010) Kevin J. Henderson et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Why are double network hydrogels so tough?

(2010) Jian Ping Gong   Soft Matter

Biocompatibility and drug delivery systems

(2010) Daniel S. Kohane et al.   Chemical Science

Nanocomposite Hydrogel with High Toughness for Bioactuators

(2009) Min Kyoon Shin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hydrogels in Regenerative Medicine

(2009) Brandon V. Slaughter et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Hydrogels for Soft Machines

(2008) Paul Calvert   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanocomposite polymer hydrogels

(2008) Patrick Schexnailder et al.   COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE

Hydrogels in drug delivery: Progress and challenges

(2008) Todd R. Hoare et al.   POLYMER

Stimuli-responsive hydrogel thin films

(2008) Ihor Tokarev et al.   Soft Matter