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    Hydrogel fiber is a hydrogel made into a fibrous state, where its width is significantly smaller than its length. The hydrogel's specific surface area...
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    A hydrogel is a biphasic material, a mixture of porous, permeable solids and at least 10% by weight or volume of interstitial fluid composed completely...
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  • physical cross-linking. Hydrogel dressings mimic the cross-linked 3D network of extracellular matrix fibers in human skin. Hydrogels can be formed through...
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    solution to induce ionic cross-linking, which produces the hydrogel. Freeze-drying the hydrogel to eliminate water produces the porous scaffold material...
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    polymer solutions that could be used as cell and tissue substrates. Hydrogel fibers are used to construct scaffolds for the development of cells and the...
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    Self-healing hydrogels are a specialized type of polymer hydrogel. A hydrogel is a macromolecular polymer gel constructed of a network of crosslinked polymer...
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    processed to create extremely small, nanoscale fibers. These fibers can be used to create a hydrogel, which is a type of material that is made up of...
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    repeated freezing-thawing, yielding highly strong, ultrapure, biocompatible hydrogels which have been used for a variety of applications such as vascular stents...
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  • Temperatures above that start to dehydrate the hydrogel and cause it shrink, thus achieving shape transformation. Hydrogels composed of pNIPAM and some other polymer...
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  • additive manufacturing. Such vehicles are biocompatible, tissue-specific hydrogels or implantable devices. 3D bioprinting prints cells and biological molecules...
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  • Artificial cartilage is a synthetic material made of hydrogels or polymers that aims to mimic the functional properties of natural cartilage in the human...
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    sodium polyacrylate. Super-absorbent polymers are an innovative class of hydrogel products that can be used in many applications including hygiene products...
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    functional polymers, galactogens have applications within hydrogel structures. These hydrogel structures can be designed to release particular nanoparticle...
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    to their self-assembly into cholesteric liquid crystals, production of hydrogels or aerogels, use in nanocomposites with superior thermal and mechanical...
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    Gel (section Hydrogels)
    the structural integrity of the hydrogel network does not dissolve from the high concentration of water. Hydrogels are highly absorbent (they can contain...
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  • include the use of thermo-responsive hydrogels, longitudinally oriented channels, longitudinally oriented fibers, stretch-grown axons, and nanofibrous...
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  • allowed for in situ synthesis of hydrogel fibers containing aqueous droplets with controlled morphology.  Hydrogel fibers provide an intriguing option for...
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  • boronic acid-substituted viologens in fluorescent hydrogels: linker effects and extension to fiber optics. Langmuir, 2006. 22(21): p. 9067-74. DiCesare...
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    Medical hydrogel: High water-absorbing and swelling capacity when AMPS is introduced to a hydrogel are keys to medical applications. Hydrogel with AMPS...
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    (2020-11-24). "Large-Scale Spinning Approach to Engineering Knittable Hydrogel Fiber for Soft Robots". ACS Nano. 14 (11): 14929–14938. doi:10.1021/acsnano...
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    based on stimuli-responsive gels. To avoid the electrolysis of water, hydrogel-based microfluidic devices are mainly based on temperature-responsive polymers...
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    relative to its own mass. Water-absorbing polymers, which are classified as hydrogels when mixed, absorb aqueous solutions through hydrogen bonding with water...
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    (cells seeded in ECM, a hydrogel sheath, and finally a calcium chloride solution). The seeded cells culture within the hydrogel sheath for several days...
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    extract hydrogels, protein hydrogels, peptide hydrogels, polymer hydrogels, and wood-based nanocellulose hydrogel. The 3D Cell Culturing by Magnetic Levitation...
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    Collagen (redirect from White fibers)
    hdl:2027.42/141506. PMID 11288796. Drury JL, Mooney DJ (November 2003). "Hydrogels for tissue engineering: scaffold design variables and applications". Biomaterials...
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    change in the number of nerve fiber bundles in the subbasal plexus of the cornea. Long-term use of PMMA or thick hydrogel contact lenses have been found...
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  • different hydrogel matrices mimicking natural ECM structure are considered as potential approaches towards in vivo –like cell culturing. Hydrogels are composed...
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  • in the periodicity leading to a similar end effect. In ion-containing hydrogels, their selective swelling results in their specificity. Applications in...
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  • sheets with self-secreted ECM, and cell encapsulation in a self-assembled hydrogel matrix. Each approach contains varying materials, fabrication methods,...
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    Researchers have built composite materials with aligned fibers and voids to generate anisotropic hydrogels, in order to mimic hierarchically ordered biological...
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