Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Liliana Moscardi, Guglielmo Lanzani, Giuseppe M. Paterno, Francesco Scotognella
Summary: This work summarizes the theoretical tools and fabrication techniques used for designing the optical properties of responsive PhCs, with a particular focus on electrochromic devices.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jincai Yin, Wenxin Fan, Zihan Xu, Jinghua Duan, Yanzhi Xia, Zhihong Nie, Kunyan Sui
Summary: A new strategy is proposed to decouple the deformation rate and deformation degree of self-shaping hydrogels, allowing for complex deformations from 2D to 3D to temporary 4D. By controlling the local gradients of photopolymerized gradient hydrogels, various controllable shape evolutions can be achieved.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
J. H. Park, S. H. Song, M. Ochoa, H. Jiang
Summary: This study investigates the use of stimuli-responsive hydrogels with embedded magnetic microparticles for remote monitoring of environmental changes. The magnetic characterizations of the ferrogel and its response to pH changes indicate its potential as a magnetic core for tuning the magnetic capacity and resonance frequency of the sensing system.
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ye Wu, Yu Wang, Linyu Long, Cheng Hu, Qingquan Kong, Yunbing Wang
Summary: The injectable glycopeptide hydrogel fabricated in this study possesses multifunctionality, including inherent antibacterial and antioxidant capabilities, as well as the ability to promote angiogenesis and accelerate wound healing. The spatiotemporal delivery of therapeutic agents within the hydrogel allows for effective anti-infection, anti-oxidation, and anti-inflammation effects, making it a promising strategy for treating chronic diabetic wounds.
JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE
(2022)
Review
Polymer Science
Yuqing Deng, Jianfeng Xi, Liucheng Meng, Yanling Lou, Farzad Seidi, Weibing Wu, Huining Xiao
Summary: This review comprehensively discusses the latest developments in stimuli-responsive nanocellulose hydrogels, including their preparation, properties, and applications. These hydrogels exhibit specific responsiveness and detection capability to environmental stimuli, making them highly applicable in various fields such as biomedicine, bionic intelligent materials, and sensing detection.
EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zexing Deng, Rui Yu, Baolin Guo
Summary: Stimuli-responsive conductive hydrogels, combining the advantages of conductive polymers, carbon nanomaterials, metals, and conductive ionic compounds, have emerged as a new concept in the field of hydrogel research. These hydrogels can respond to various stimuli such as temperature, pH, light, magnetic fields, and electrical fields, and have a wide range of applications in sensors, electronic devices, drug release, wound healing, photothermal therapy, tissue engineering, and cell delivery. Various issues still need to be addressed, and future directions for the development of new types of stimuli-responsive conductive hydrogels are proposed in this review.
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2021)
Article
Spectroscopy
Xiaokang Lu, Peiyan Shen, Qinglin Bai, Yang Liu, Bo Han, Haojie Ma, Ran Li, Xueyan Hou, Yuqi Zhang, Ji-Jiang Wang
Summary: A responsive photonic hydrogel was prepared by embedding a three-dimensional photonic crystal into an amino-functionalized hydrogel, enabling colorimetric detection of formaldehyde (FA). When the hydrogel reacts with FA, it undergoes volume shrinkage and a decrease in microsphere spacing, resulting in a blue shift in reflectance spectra and a color change from red to cyan. This photonic hydrogel shows high sensitivity, selectivity, and accuracy for detecting FA in air and aquatic products, providing a new approach for designing responsive photonic hydrogels for other target analytes.
SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
(2023)
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Mengmeng Chen, Yu Wang, Jingyang Zhang, Yuan Peng, Shuang Li, Dianpeng Han, Shuyue Ren, Kang Qin, Sen Li, Zhixian Gao
Summary: DNA hydrogels have rich structural and functional information, making them useful for various applications in bioanalysis and biomedicine. Stimuli-responsive DNA hydrogels, which can undergo reversible transitions from gel to sol under different triggers, have emerged as smart materials for sensing. This study provides a review on stimuli-responsive DNA hydrogels and their biosensing applications.
JOURNAL OF NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Xiao Li, Minghao Li, Lisa Tang, Diwei Shi, Emily Lam, Jinhye Bae
Summary: This review explores the potential of stimuli-responsive hydrogels in mimicking the morphing behavior of living tissues or organisms, and discusses how functional additives can be combined with hydrogels to extend their functionalities. It also highlights the potential applications of stimuli-responsive composite hydrogels in various fields including soft robotics, information encryption/decryption, biomedical research, flexible electronics, and engineering living materials.
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jingyu Wang, Wenhao Chen, Dongjie Yang, Zhiqiang Fang, Weifeng Liu, Ting Xiang, Xueqing Qiu
Summary: This study presents a strategy to transform disordered lignin into ordered photonic lignin for the fabrication of functional structural color materials. The photonic lignin exhibits tunable structural colors and shows excellent biocompatibility, making it promising for applications in optical devices, cosmetics, and food packaging.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Adrien Bessaguet, Quentin Blancart-Remaury, Pauline Poinot, Isabelle Opalinski, Sebastien Papot
Summary: Rotaxanes and molecular knots have unique properties due to the presence of a mechanical bond that interlocks the molecular components permanently. The disassembly of the interlocked structure can activate properties that are concealed in the parent compound. This study presents the development of stimuli-responsive Cu-I-complexed [2]catenanes as OFF/ON catalysts for the copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Habib M. N. Ahmad, Gaurab Dutta, John Csoros, Bo Si, Rongfang Yang, Jeffrey M. Halpern, W. Rudolf Seitz, Edward Song
Summary: The development of a single-chain stimuli-responsive templated polymer without covalent interchain cross-linkers shows promise as a target recognition element for a label-free electrochemical sensing platform.
ACS APPLIED POLYMER MATERIALS
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Pedro Lavrador, Marco R. Esteves, Vitor M. Gaspar, Joao F. Mano
Summary: Recent advances in the design of stimuli-responsive nanocomposite hydrogels have expanded their potential for operating as advanced systems in various biomedical applications, benefitting from tailored single or multi-responsiveness. The combination of hydrogels and nanoparticles showcases an intrinsic ability to react to external or internal/physiological stimuli, developing intelligent systems with application-oriented features.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Hongyue Wang, Lin Wang, Shasha Guo, Zehao Liu, Luqing Zhao, Renzhong Qiao, Chao Li
Summary: An active flavonoid compound, rutin, was incorporated into a guanosine phenylborate hydrogel (GBR) for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The hydrogel exhibited good stability and injectability, and achieved dual-responsive release in an acidic pH and excessive ROS-containing medium. In vivo studies showed that the GBR hydrogel had higher therapeutic efficacy than free rutin and could suppress the expression of inflammatory cytokines.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yanling Hu, Hui Li, Xinyi Lv, Yan Xu, Yannan Xie, Lihui Yuwen, Yingnan Song, Shengke Li, Jinjun Shao, Dongliang Yang
Summary: Diabetic wound infection is a common disease that poses challenges due to the diabetic wound environment and bacterial resistance. Nanobiomaterial-based therapeutic systems with stimuli-responsive performance can address these challenges by delivering therapeutic agents on demand.
