On the shores of a beach in northern Japan, waves pummel a rubber duck stubbornly stuck to a rock. Thanks to a new supersticky hydrogel lining its base, the toy won’t budge. Hydrogels are soft, ...
Fungi are vital to natural ecosystems by breaking down dead organic material and cycling it back into the environment as ...
A common soil fungus forms strong hydrogels that could inspire next-generation biomedical materials for tissue regeneration.
This electroactive polymer hydrogel "learned" to play Pong. Credit: Cell Reports Physical Science/Strong et al. "Our research shows that even very simple materials can exhibit complex, adaptive ...
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A new, shampoo-like gel developed at Michigan State University could prevent hair loss during chemotherapy by constricting ...
In Science, TU/e researchers have published their study on new phase transitions of solutions and gels in water, which seem to go against the basic principles of chemistry, and which they discovered ...
In 2020, right when Jane Baude was starting her Ph.D. research at UC Santa Barbara, she learned that a critical component of ...