Issue 3, 2020

Self-healing conductive hydrogels: preparation, properties and applications

Abstract

Conductive hydrogels have generated great interest in biomedical and electrical fields. However, conventional conductive hydrogels usually lack self-healing properties, which might be unfavorable for their application. Conductive self-healing hydrogels with excellent performance for applications in the biomedical and electrical fields are growing in number. In this review paper, the progress related to conductive self-healing hydrogels is summarized. The self-healing mechanism is classified to demonstrate the design and synthesis of conductive self-healing hydrogels and their applications in tissue engineering, wound healing, electronic skin, sensors and self-repaired circuits are presented and discussed. The future development of conductive self-healing hydrogels and problems that need to be solved are also described.

Graphical abstract: Self-healing conductive hydrogels: preparation, properties and applications

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
31 10 2019
Accepted
11 12 2019
First published
12 12 2019

Nanoscale, 2020,12, 1224-1246

Self-healing conductive hydrogels: preparation, properties and applications

Z. Deng, H. Wang, P. X. Ma and B. Guo, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 1224 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR09283H

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