Muscle-inspired ion-sensitive hydrogels with highly tunable mechanical performance for versatile industrial applications

pNiPAM tunable hydrogels for bio applications

Modified Gellan Gum hydrogels with tunable physical and mechanical properties.

Gellan Gum (GG) has been recently proposed for tissue engineering applications. GG hydrogels are produced by physical crosslinking methods induced by temperature variation or by the presence of divalent cations. However, physical crosslinking methods may yield hydrogels that become weaker in physiological conditions due to the exchange of divalent cations by monovalent ones. Hence, this work pr...

Hybrid Polymer-Network Hydrogels with Tunable Mechanical Response

Hybrid polymer-network gels built by both physical and covalent polymer crosslinking combine the advantages of both these crosslinking types: they exhibit high mechanical strength along with excellent fracture toughness and extensibility. If these materials are extensively deformed, their physical crosslinks can break such that strain energy is dissipated and irreversible fracturing is restrict...

Performance Evaluation with Industrial Applications

It is being increasingly understood that the evaluation of computer systems performance must be based on realistic, full applications. Kernel, algorithm, and small-application benchmarks are important for measuring and discussing the performance of individual components of a computer system. However, the complex performance behavior of these components in concert and in the context of a large c...

Versatile controlled ion release for synthesis of recoverable hybrid hydrogels with high stretchability and notch-insensitivity.

A versatile ion release mediated by GDL is demonstrated to achieve a controlled homogeneous crosslinking of alginate chains, which is critical for the synthesis of highly stretchable and notch-insensitive hybrid hydrogels with controlled properties.