Editorial for Special Issue: Advances in Smart and Tough Hydrogels

Dong Zhang; Jintao Yang; Xiaoxia Le; Dianwen Song

doi:10.3390/gels9100789

Editorial for Special Issue: Advances in Smart and Tough Hydrogels

Gels. 2023 Oct 1;9(10):789. doi: 10.3390/gels9100789.

Authors

Dong Zhang¹, Jintao Yang², Xiaoxia Le³, Dianwen Song⁴

Affiliations

¹ The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
² College of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
³ Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China.
⁴ School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China.

Abstract

Smart hydrogels possess both intelligent and responsive properties, which are designed to exhibit specific responses to external stimuli such as changes in temperature, pH, or the presence of specific ions/counterions, making them "smart" or "responsive" materials [...].

Publication types

Editorial