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General Strategy to Fabricate Highly Filled Microcomposite Hydrogels with High Mechanical Strength and Stiffness

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Mechanochemical Regulated Origami with Tough Hydrogels by Ion Transfer Printing

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Printing, folding and assembly methods for forming 3D mesostructures in advanced materials

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Liquid Metal-Conductive Thermoplastic Elastomer Integration for Low-Voltage Stiffness Tuning

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Engineered Elastomer Substrates for Guided Assembly of Complex 3D Mesostructures by Spatially Nonuniform Compressive Buckling

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DNA-Responsive Polyisocyanopeptide Hydrogels with Stress-Stiffening Capacity

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Tough Hydrogels with Programmable and Complex Shape Deformations by Ion Dip-Dyeing and Transfer Printing

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Morphing Metal and Elastomer Bicontinuous Foams for Reversible Stiffness, Shape Memory, and Self-Healing Soft Machines

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Bottom-Up Structuring and Site-Selective Modification of Hydrogels Using a Two-Photon [2+2] Cycloaddition of Maleimide

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Sensitive electromechanical sensors using viscoelastic graphene-polymer nanocomposites

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

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Tuning stiffness of cell-laden hydrogel via host–guest interactions

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

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Matrix elasticity of void-forming hydrogels controls transplanted-stem-cell-mediated bone formation

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A mechanically driven form of Kirigami as a route to 3D mesostructures in micro/nanomembranes

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Strengthening Alginate/Polyacrylamide Hydrogels Using Various Multivalent Cations

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Reversible patterning and actuation of hydrogels by electrically assisted ionoprinting

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Substrate Elasticity Regulates Skeletal Muscle Stem Cell Self-Renewal in Culture

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