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Molecular engineering of metal coordination interactions for strong, tough, and fast-recovery hydrogels

Wenxu Sun, Bin Xue, Qiyang Fan, Runhan Tao, Chunxi Wang, Xin Wang, Yiran Li, Meng Qin, Wei Wang, Bin Chen, Yi Cao

Year
2020
Citations
214
Access
Open access

Abstract

, and fast recovery in seconds. We expect that they can function effectively as scaffolds for load-bearing tissue engineering and as building blocks for soft robotics. Our results provide a general route to tune the mechanical and dynamic properties of hydrogels at the molecular level.

Keywords

Self-healing hydrogelsMetalChemistryNanotechnologyMaterials sciencePolymer chemistryOrganic chemistry

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