Hydrogels: Properties and Applications in Biomedicine

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer chains with three-dimensional (3D) network structures, which can absorb relatively large amounts of fluid. In this review, we first introduce the basic information of hydrogels, such as structure, classification, and synthesis.

🔑 Key Findings

• Because of the high water content, soft structure, and porosity of hydrogels, they closely resemble living tissues.
• Research in recent years shows that hydrogels have been applied in various fields, such as agriculture, biomaterials, the food industry, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine.
• Along with the underlying technology improvements of hydrogel development, hydrogels can be expected to be applied in more fields.

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