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A polymer hydrogel system combines chemical, thermal and mechanical responses in a reversible manner and thus exhibits homeostatic and self-regulatory behaviour similar to that of living systems.

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Figure 1: A schematic diagram outlining the design of the system and the cyclic chemo-mechano-chemical (C1→M→C2) events.

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  1. Eugenia Kumacheva is in the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, and The Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 3H6, Canada,

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Kumacheva, E. The catalytic curtsey. Nature Mater 11, 665–666 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3381

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