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Multifunctional Hydrogels

  • Min Xu
  • Hailong Huang
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Abstract

Hydrogels are cross-linked three-dimensional polymeric networks which can absorb a great quantity of water and keep mechanically stable without dissolution. Due to the biocompatibility and biodegradability, biological hydrogels have been wildly investigated and used in various fields, such as adsorption materials, shape memory materials, self-healing materials, sensor units, super capacitor, drug carriers, and so on. In this chapter, we would focus on some of the upper aspects and give a brief introduction.

Keywords

Hydrogels Adsorption Stimuli-responsive Self-healing 
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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge East China Normal University for providing research facilities and platform.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Physics and Materials Science & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic ResonanceEast China Normal UniversityShanghaiPeople’s Republic of China

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