期刊
ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES
卷 4, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/admt.201900043
关键词
biomimetics; drug delivery; smart materials; soft robotics; tissue engineering
资金
- National Science Foundation [EFMA-1830893]
Hydrogels, which are hydrophilic soft porous networks, are an important class of materials of broad relevance to bioanalytical chemistry, soft-robotics, drug delivery, and regenerative medicine. Transformer hydrogels are micro-and mesostructured hydrogels that display a dramatic transformation of shape, form, or dimension with associated changes in function, due to engineered local variations such as in swelling or stiffness, in response to external controls or environmental stimuli. This review describes principles that can be utilized to fabricate transformer hydrogels such as by layering, patterning, or generating anisotropy, and gradients. Transformer hydrogels are classified based on their responsivity to different stimuli such as temperature, electromagnetic fields, chemicals, and biomolecules. A survey of the current research progress suggests applications of transformer hydrogels in biomimetics, soft robotics, microfluidics, tissue engineering, drug delivery, surgery, and biomedical engineering.
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