Accelerated Hydrogel Strengthening: Synergy between Mechanical Training and Lignin Intake

Nano Letters, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 8, 2025

The construction of high-strength hydrogels is essential for engineering applications but often limited by poor durability under stress. Current post-treatment methods are inefficient and time consuming. Inspired muscle building, we propose a green, efficient, synergistic enhancement method. dynamic stretching the PVA hydrogel in LS solution promotes formation an ordered polymer network, while can fix structure. After 500 cycles (approximately 16.7 min), tensile strength, toughness, Young's modulus increase 76-fold, 117-fold, 304-fold, respectively, outperforming single treatments such as soaking or training. Multitechnique analyses reveal that nanoscale crystalline domains microscale-ordered polymers drive these macroscopic improvements. Notably, be substituted with other solvents to achieve similar effects, demonstrating excellent adaptability, scalability, efficiency. This rapid straightforward technology holds great promise overcoming challenges constructing applying hydrogels.

Язык: Английский

Traditional Chinese Medicine-Loaded Hydrogels: An Emerging Strategy for the Treatment of Bone Infections

Pharmaceutics, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 17(4), С. 514 - 514

Опубликована: Апрель 14, 2025

Bone infection is a disease that seriously affects patients’ quality of life and physical health. Traditional treatment methods have many drawbacks. Hydrogels loaded with Chinese Medicine (TCM), as an emerging strategy, combine the advantages good biocompatibility hydrogels, adjustable drug release performance, multi-target synergistic TCM, showing great application potential. This article elaborates in detail on research progress hydrogels TCM for bone infections, including classification characteristics mechanism action preparation examples, advantages, challenges prospects faced. The aim to provide new ideas references clinical infections.

Язык: Английский