The hybrid hydrogel materials meet important social challenges, including the photocatalytic purification of water and bio-medical applications. Here, we demonstrate two scenarios polyacrylamide-TiO2 (PAAm@TiO2) composite design using calcium alginate (Alg-Ca) or Keplerate-type polyoxometalates (POMs) {Mo132} tuning polymer network structure. Calcium molding allowed us to produce polyacrylamide...

Tissue stiffness is an important determinant of cellular function, and changes in tissue stiffness are commonly associated with fibrosis, cancer and cardiovascular disease. Traditional cell biological approaches to studying cellular function involve culturing cells on a rigid substratum (plastic dishes or glass coverslips) which cannot account for the effect of an elastic ECM or the variations ...