Sunday, April 18, 2021

Improved hydrogel could make artificial tendons

Recommendable! Amazing stuff! Looks like synthetic hydrogels are in the news these days. See also my recent blog about this subject here. And it appears that researchers are making good progress regarding hydrogels. 

"... Here we present a strategy to produce a multi-length-scale hierarchical hydrogel architecture using a freezing-assisted salting-out treatment. The produced poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels are highly anisotropic, comprising micrometre-scale honeycomb-like pore walls, which in turn comprise interconnected nanofibril meshes. ..."

Improved hydrogel could make artificial tendons – Physics World A strong, flexible and tough hydrogel that contains more than 70% water could be used to make durable artificial tendons and other load-bearing biological tissues.

Here is the underlying research article:

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