#hydrogels — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ie/302487/ New magnetic polymer design boosts force and stretch in soft robotics #ArtificialMuscles #Éire #hydrogels #IE #Ireland #Polymer #Robotics #SoftPolymers #Technology

University of Waterloo: New ‘hydrogel’ makes personal hygiene products greener. “Plant-based material developed by Waterloo researchers absorbs like commercial plastics used in products like disposable diapers – but breaks down in months, not centuries.”

Cornell University: Plants you wear: LivingLoom weaves seeds into textiles. “Humans’ relationships with plants is largely utilitarian, serving our needs. We generally either eat them or make things out of them. Researchers in the College of Human Ecology (CHE) have developed a design and fabrication approach that treats these living things as companions to humans, with seeds woven into […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/08/plants-you-wear-livingloom-weaves-seeds-into-textiles-cornell-university/

Slightly delayed due to my holidays, but excited to share this new paper that came out online a little while ago in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c08428 In it, PhD student Pushpa Rampratap spearheaded our effort to use MAS #NMR to study ECM-like #hydrogels. In a prior publication (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2023.121063) she described methods for preparing 13C enriched version of the polysaccharide hyaluronic acid…. #glycotime #nmrchat #ssnmr

From 22 Aug: Hydrogels can learn to play Pong - This electroactive polymer hydrogel “learned“ to play Pong. Credit: Cell Reports Phys... https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/hydrogels-can-learn-to-play-pong/ #active-matter #chemistry #hydrogels #materials-science #physics #polymers #pong #science #smart-materials

Hydrogels can learn to play Pong - This electroactive polymer hydrogel "learned" to play Pong. Credit: ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044726 #materialsscience #smartmaterials #activematter #chemistry #hydrogels #polymers #science #physics #pong

Gel-like materials that can be #injected into the body hold great potential to #heal injured #tissues or manufacture entirely new tissues. Many researchers are working to develop these #hydrogels for biomedical uses, but so far very few have made it into the clinic.
#Medical #Biology #Engineering #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/01/med01312303.html

#Hydrogels plus #solar #panels can convert #sunlight into #energy, #water and #crops

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hydrogel-pv-solar