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Aug 2026
Hydrogels: current biomedical applications and future directions
Hydrogels are highly hydrated three-dimensional polymeric network materials that have attracted considerable attention in medical and biomedical fields owing to their favorable chemical modifiability, physical tunability, biocompatibility, and capacity to mimic key features of native extracellular matrices. With advanc...
Hao-Ming Wu, Guang-Hao Piao, Qiu-Qi Chen et al.
· Molecular Biomedicine · 2 citations