4.8 Editorial Material

Recent Advances in Hydrogels

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Summary: Peptide hydrogels are potential biomaterials for tissue engineering, forming nanofibers and twisted helical bundles through self-assembly to facilitate in situ mineralization. The hydrogel composites exhibit excellent dynamic and self-healing behavior, tunable bioactive response, and support osteoblast growth.

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Summary: A new class of zwitterionic hydrogels, developed from a structurally ameliorated sulfobetaine monomer VBIPS, show significantly enhanced mechanical properties including excellent tensile toughness and fracture toughness. The toughness originates from the formation of a two-phase structure at room temperature, and the gel's mechanical properties can be tuned by changing the pH, with self-healing achieved through acid treatment.

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Biobased Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels That Comprise Supramolecular Interpenetrating Networks and Exhibit Programmed Behaviors

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Summary: This paper introduces a hierarchical design of supramolecular hydrogels, consisting of two individual supramolecular networks with reversible and programmed behaviors. These hydrogels exhibit properties such as self-healing and injectability, and can be used as responsive carriers.

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Biomimetic Self-Deformation of Polymer Interpenetrating Network with Stretch-Induced Anisotropicity

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Summary: The introduction of anisotropicity is crucial in developing intelligent devices using stimuli-responsive polymer hydrogels, with oriented hydrogels attracting significant interest. This work presents a simple method to create temperature and pH dual-responsive hydrogels with orientated polymer chains, without the need for inert materials. The resulting anisotropic gels could deform into programmable shapes, showing potential for applications as actuators and information carriers.

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Autonomous Shapeshifting Hydrogels via Temporal Programming of Photoswitchable Dynamic Network

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Summary: Responsive materials require external stimulation, while temporal programmable materials exhibit autonomous trigger-free responses. By utilizing dynamic ionic bonds and photo-switchable dynamic disulfide bonds in hydrogels, precise manipulation of unusual shape-shifting behaviors can be achieved. This combination allows access to multifunctional shape-shifting devices with versatility beyond conventional systems.

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Displaying Lipid Chains in a Peptide-Polysaccharide-Based Self-Assembled Hydrogel Network

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Summary: By introducing lipid modifications into a noncovalent hydrogel system, interactions with hydrophobic drugs can be enhanced, resulting in sustainable release. This self-assembling modular system provides a versatile toolbox for engineering 3D models and developing injectable therapeutic materials.

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Injectable Phenolic-Chitosan Self-Healing Hydrogel with Hierarchical Micelle Architectures and Fast Adhesiveness

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Summary: The biodegradable self-healing hydrogel synthesized in this study showed multifunctionalities, benefiting from micellar architectures and phenolic modification. The investigation into the corresponding hierarchical structure helps to gain insights into the multiscale designs of next-generation self-healing hydrogels for biomedical applications.

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Strong, Ultrafast, Reprogrammable Hydrogel Actuators with Muscle-Mimetic Aligned Fibrous Structures

Zhen Jiang et al.

Summary: This study introduces a novel design strategy for hydrogel actuators, which combines thermoinduced microphase separation and mechanical alignment to achieve excellent mechanical properties and ultrafast actuation. The design enables shape reprogrammability and opens up new possibilities for real-world applications of smart hydrogels in soft robotics.

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Highly Stretchable Nanocomposite Hydrogels with Outstanding Antifatigue Fracture Based on Robust Noncovalent Interactions for Wound Healing

Mengyuan Zhang et al.

Summary: Nanocomposite hydrogels with excellent mechanical properties were prepared, showing remarkable resistance to fatigue fracture and hemostatic activity. These hydrogels not only accelerated skin wound healing in mice but also exhibited exceptional mechanical performance.

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Fast-Recoverable, Self-Healable, and Adhesive Nanocomposite Hydrogel Consisting of Hybrid Nanoparticles for Ultrasensitive Strain and Pressure Sensing

Xiaohui Yu et al.

Summary: The newly developed nanocomposite hydrogels possess excellent stretchability, self-healing, and outstanding adhesiveness through dynamic hydrogen bonds. The sensors fabricated with these hydrogels exhibit high sensitivity, rapid response time, and good antifatigue performance in detecting human motions, showing promising potential for accurate and long-term human motion monitoring.

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Injectable In Situ Forming Double-Network Hydrogel To Enhance Transplanted Cell Viability and Retention

Xiaoya Ding et al.

Summary: The injectable in situ forming double-network hydrogel developed in this study plays a crucial role in cell transplantation by providing cell protection, long-term retention, and support for cell growth. These functions are achieved through dynamic cross-linking and secondary cross-linking networks in the hydrogel.

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Ultrastretchable, Highly Transparent, Self-Adhesive, and 3D-Printable Ionic Hydrogels for Multimode Tactical Sensing

Hua Wei et al.

Summary: Ionic gel-based electronic devices exhibit ultrahigh stretchability, transparency, and conformal adhesion. By introducing new materials, the technology achieves good performance in various application scenarios. In the future, this approach is expected to develop new tactical sensing applications in smart robotics, human-machine interfaces, and wearable monitoring systems.

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Autonomous Self-Healing, Antifreezing, and Transparent Conductive Elastomers

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Skin-Contactable and Antifreezing Strain Sensors Based on Bilayer Hydrogels

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Photoresponsive Styrylpyrene-Modified MOFs for Gated Loading and Release of Cargo Molecules

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Dynamic Flexible Hydrogel Network with Biological Tissue-like Self-Protective Functions

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3D Printing of Dual-Physical Cross-linking Hydrogel with Ultrahigh Strength and Toughness

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Nanocolloidal Hydrogel with Sensing and Antibacterial Activities Governed by Iron Ion Sequestration

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An Injectable, Electroconductive Hydrogel/Scaffold for Neural Repair and Motion Sensing

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