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A skin-mimicking multifunctional hydrogel via hierarchical, reversible noncovalent interactions

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Self‐Healable and Conductive Hydrogel Nanocomposite with High Environmental Stability for Electromagnetic‐Interference‐Free Electrocardiography Patches

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Rapid In Situ Deposition of Iron-Chelated Polydopamine Coating on the Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Dressings for Combined Photothermal and Chemodynamic Therapy of Skin Wound Infection

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From Adhesion to Detachment: Strategies to Design Tissue‐Adhesive Hydrogels

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Conductive hydrogel based on dual-network structure with high toughness, adhesion, self-healing and anti-freezing for flexible strain sensor

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A grape seed protein-tannic acid powder to transform various non-adhesive hydrogels into adhesive gels

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An interface-integrated hydrogel for all-in-one flexible supercapacitor with excellent wide-temperature and self-healing properties

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Improved tough and conductive polyacrylamide/sodium alginate dual-network hydrogel by ionic liquid for flexible capacitor and multifunctional sensor

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A highly stretchable, fast self-healing elastomer with fast, tough, repeatable adhesion

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Fast gelling, high performance MXene hydrogels for wearable sensors

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TiO2 deposited dual functional hydrogel coatings with superhydrophilic and photocatalytic properties for efficient oil/water separation and dye photodegradation

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Hydrogel electrodes with conductive and substrate-adhesive layers for noninvasive long-term EEG acquisition

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Multifunctional, green, and aqueous adhesive from grape seed protein and tannic acid

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Multifunctional organohydrogel with rambutan-like microstructure for waste heat recovery and intelligent sensing

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Ultra-fast cryogenic self-healing ionic hydrogel for flexible wearable bioelectronics

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A stretchable, compressible and anti‐freezing ionic gel based on a natural deep eutectic solvent applied as a strain sensor

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Preparation of gradient hydrogel for pressure sensing by combining freezing and directional diffusion processes

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Wearable Strain Sensors via Tough and Conductive Hydrogel-Based MoS2 Composites for Real-Time Motion Tracking

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A cyclic freezing-thawing approach to layered Janus hydrogel tapes with single-sided adhesiveness for wearable strain sensors

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Ionic conductive soluble starch hydrogels for biocompatible and anti-freezing wearable sensors

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Wearable sweat glucose monitoring patches enabled by double network hydrogel-MoS2/PEDOT: PSS nanocomposite

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Bioinspired fabrication of lightweight gradient ceramizable phenolic aerogel composites with exceptional ablation resistance and thermal insulation for superior thermal protection system

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Magneto-Induced Janus Adhesive-Tough Hydrogels for Wearable Human Motion Sensing and Enhanced Low-Grade Heat Harvesting

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Multiple regeneration of “high iron” alginate composite gel beads for rapid treatment of dye wastewater

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Ultrasound-assisted liquid metal-initiated double-network alginate/polyacrylamide hydrogel with gallium ion crosslinking for high-performance flexible strain sensing

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