Advances in materials science are transforming medicine, engineering, and environmental technology. Among the most promising innovations are hydrogels—highly absorbent polymer networks with ...

Researchers in the lab of UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Asst. Prof. Sihong Wang have developed a hydrogel that retains the semiconductive ability needed to transmit information ...

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Augmenix, Inc. is pleased to announce that the company’s leading product, SpaceOAR hydrogel, is now available to millions of American men covered under Medicare, ...

Gelatin interacts with cells through the presence of arginine-glutamine-aspartic acid (R-G-D) sequences in its protein backbone, and it is also enzymatically degradable. 1 Gelatin is a cost-effective ...

A team of scientists has developed a novel hydrogel solar panel coating that is reportedly capable of lowering hot spot temperatures by up to 16.2 C, outperforming conventional hydrogels. The hydrogel ...

With possible applications in information encryption and adaptive camouflage, the material is a programmable hydrogel film, the appearance, texture and mechanical response of whic ...

The hydrogel behaves like a programmable canvas. Rather than using traditional pigments, researchers embedded data directly ...