When you think about materials used in medicine, you likely picture metals, plastics, or synthetic gels. Researchers at the ...

Hydrogels are often used as scaffolds in tissue engineering. Living cells infused into the material can, theoretically, grow through the gel until an entire piece of tissue forms. But to grow well, ...

Researchers have developed a sustainable, plant-derived cellulose hydrogel that solves the “dendrite problem” in ...

Hydrogels are characterized by their hydrophilic nature and 3D network structure, possessing the unique ability to absorb significant amounts of water or biological fluids. This feature makes them ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Developing materials that remain flexible in extreme cold represents one of materials science's persistent challenges. Standard flexible materials become brittle below freezing ...

Guohao Dai, PhD, a bioengineering professor at Northeastern University, helped create a new elastic hydrogel material for 3D printing of soft living tissues, including blood vessels. The breakthrough ...

Fungi are vital to natural ecosystems by breaking down dead organic material and cycling it back into the environment as nutrients. But new research from the University of Utah finds one species, ...

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have developed a new hydrogel made from cellulose nanocrystals derived from wood pulp, which mimics human tissue properties and could be used to heal ...