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Robust and smart hydrogels based on natural polymers

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This review summarizes recent progress of the robust and smart hydrogels prepared from natural polymers including polysaccharides, proteins, etc. These hydrogels exhibit outstanding mechanical properties due to their nanofibrous aggregated microstructures and special crosslinking networks. Furthermore, these hydrogels show some smart stimuli-responsive behaviors triggered by pH, temperature, light, electricity and magnetism. Hopefully, these hydrogels derived from natural polymers with inherent biodegradation and biocompatibility have great application potential in the fields of biomedicine, tissue engineering, soft robots and bio-machine.

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This work was financially supported by the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21334005) and the Major International (Regional) Joint Research Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21620102004).

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Duan, Jj., Zhang, Ln. Robust and smart hydrogels based on natural polymers. Chin J Polym Sci 35, 1165–1180 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-017-1983-9

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