Anisotropic Hybrid Hydrogels with Superior Mechanical Properties Reminiscent of Tendons or Ligaments

A Facile Method to Fabricate Anisotropic Hydrogels with Perfectly Aligned Hierarchical Fibrous Structures

(2018) Md. Tariful Islam Mredha et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Engineering Musculoskeletal Tissue Interfaces

(2018) Ece Bayrak et al.   Frontiers in Materials

Tough and Thermosensitive Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Graphene Oxide Hydrogels with Macroscopically Oriented Liquid Crystalline Structures

(2016) Zhongcheng Zhu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Biomimetic jellyfish-like PVA/graphene oxide nanocomposite hydrogels with anisotropic and pH-responsive mechanical properties

(2016) Xin Peng et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Biomimetic 4D printing

(2016) A. Sydney Gladman et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Freezing Molecular Orientation under Stretch for High Mechanical Strength but Anisotropic Hydrogels

(2016) Peng Lin et al.   Small

Monodomain hydrogels prepared by shear-induced orientation and subsequent gelation

(2016) Xiao Ying Lin et al.   RSC Advances

Hydrogel with Aligned and Tunable Pore Via “Hot Ice” Template Applies as Bioscaffold

(2016) Hongjian He et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Strategies to engineer tendon/ligament-to-bone interface: Biomaterials, cells and growth factors

(2015) Sonia Font Tellado et al.   ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS

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

(2015) Peng Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Biodegradation Study of SBA-15 Microparticles in Simulated Body Fluid and in Vivo

(2015) Youngjin Choi et al.   LANGMUIR

An anisotropic hydrogel with electrostatic repulsion between cofacially aligned nanosheets

(2015) Mingjie Liu et al.   NATURE

Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel

(2015) Youn Soo Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Designed fabrication of super-stiff, anisotropic hybrid hydrogels via linear remodeling of polymer networks and subsequent crosslinking

(2015) Suji Choi et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Injectable, spontaneously assembling, inorganic scaffolds modulate immune cells in vivo and increase vaccine efficacy

(2014) Jaeyun Kim et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Design of stiff, tough and stretchy hydrogel composites via nanoscale hybrid crosslinking and macroscale fiber reinforcement

(2014) Shaoting Lin et al.   Soft Matter

Control superstructure of rigid polyelectrolytes in oppositely charged hydrogels via programmed internal stress

(2014) Riku Takahashi et al.   Nature Communications

Hybrid Hydrogels with Extremely High Stiffness and Toughness

(2014) Jianyu Li et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Alginate/silica hybrid materials for immobilization of green microalgae Chlorella vulgaris for cell-based sensor arrays

(2014) Angela Pannier et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Strengthening Alginate/Polyacrylamide Hydrogels Using Various Multivalent Cations

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

Cell-laden Microengineered and Mechanically Tunable Hybrid Hydrogels of Gelatin and Graphene Oxide

(2013) Su Ryon Shin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

3D Graphene Oxide-Polymer Hydrogel: Near-Infrared Light-Triggered Active Scaffold for Reversible Cell Capture and On-Demand Release

(2013) Wen Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Influence of Nongelling Hydrocolloids on the Gelation of Agarose

(2013) Natalie Russ et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Liquid crystalline inorganic nanosheets for facile synthesis of polymer hydrogels with anisotropies in structure, optical property, swelling/deswelling, and ion transport/fixation

(2013) Nobuyoshi Miyamoto et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

One-pot facile synthesis of silica reinforced double network hydrogels based on triple interactions

(2013) Xiubin Xu et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

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

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

Thermoresponsive Composite Hydrogels with Aligned Macroporous Structure by Ice-Templated Assembly

(2013) Hao Bai et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Multiple Shape Transformations of Composite Hydrogel Sheets

(2013) Héloïse Thérien-Aubin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Highly Elastic and Superstretchable Graphene Oxide/Polyacrylamide Hydrogels

(2013) Huai-Ping Cong et al.   Small

Swelling-driven rolling and anisotropic expansion of striped gel sheets

(2013) Myunghwan Byun et al.   Soft Matter

Aligned porous stimuli-responsive hydrogels via directional freezing and frozen UV initiated polymerization

(2013) Michael Barrow et al.   Soft Matter

Self-shaping composites with programmable bioinspired microstructures

(2013) Randall M. Erb et al.   Nature Communications

Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels

(2012) Jeong-Yun Sun et al.   NATURE

Recovery from applied strain in interpenetrating polymer network hydrogels with ionic and covalent cross-links

(2012) Shannon E. Bakarich et al.   Soft Matter

Preparation of poly(ethylene glycol) aligned porous cryogels using a unidirectional freezing technique

(2012) Jingjun Wu et al.   Soft Matter

Anisotropic tough poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) hydrogels fabricated by directional freezing redox polymerization

(2012) Jintang Zhu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Surface functionalization of magnetic mesoporous silica nanoparticles for controlled drug release

(2010) Baisong Chang et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Highly Extensible Double-Network Gels with Self-Assembling Anisotropic Structure

(2008) Wei Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS