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Gels, Volume 5, Issue 3

September 2019 - 10 articles

Cover Story: In 2003, Gong and Osada of developed double-network (DN) hydrogels, combining excellent mechanical properties and ease of preparation, and subsequent efforts, mainly in the past 5 years, have focused on extending the DN concept to triple, and even higher, hydrogels, organogels, and elastomers. The results are outstanding, not only leading to even stronger materials, but also introducing, in a modular fashion, further important material properties, including electrical conductivity, low-friction coefficients, and (bio)degradability. View this paper.
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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,656 Views
9 Pages

Preparation of ETS-10 Microporous Phase Pellets with Color Change Properties

  • Pierantonio De Luca,
  • Carmelo Mastroianni,
  • Carlo Siciliano,
  • Janos B. Nagy and
  • Anastasia Macario

2 September 2019

The main scope of the present work is to synthesize pH-responsive Engelhard titanium silicate (ETS)-10 phase crystalline pellets through the smart modification of a synthetic process which was previously applied to the preparation of other phases. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,698 Views
13 Pages

29 August 2019

Previous studies involving poly N-vinylcaprolactam (PNVCL) and itaconic acid (IA) have synthesised the hydrogels with the presence of a solvent and a crosslinker, producing chemically crosslinked hydrogel systems. In this study, however, temperature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,493 Views
18 Pages

14 August 2019

Chitosan-based hydrogels are being widely used in biomedical applications due to their eco-friendly, biodegradable, and biocompatible properties, and their ability to mimic the extracellular matrix of many tissues. However, the application of chitosa...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,836 Views
9 Pages

Particle Size in Secondary Particle and Magnetic Response for Carrageenan Magnetic Hydrogels

  • Junko Ikeda,
  • Daichi Takahashi,
  • Mayuko Watanabe,
  • Mika Kawai and
  • Tetsu Mitsumata

10 August 2019

The relation between the number of magnetic particles and the change in storage modulus induced by a magnetic field was investigated for weak hydrogels containing carbonyl iron, iron oxide, and barium ferrite particles with different diameters in pri...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,904 Views
9 Pages

Gelation of Textile Dye Solution Treated with Fish Scales

  • S M Fijul Kabir,
  • Taslim Ur Rashid and
  • Ioan I. Negulescu

18 July 2019

In the present article, the commercial value of fish scales (FS), one of the most discarded fish wastes, has been identified by discovering their gelation capability. Fish scales of different physical forms were applied for the removal of dyes (acid...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,499 Views
21 Pages

8 July 2019

This review summarizes work done on triply, or higher, interpenetrating polymer network materials prepared in order to widen the properties of double polymer network hydrogels (DN), doubly interpenetrating polymer networks with enhanced mechanical pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
11,040 Views
12 Pages

Dental Whitening Gels: Strengths and Weaknesses of an Increasingly Used Method

  • Luca Fiorillo,
  • Luigi Laino,
  • Rosa De Stefano,
  • Cesare D’Amico,
  • Salvatore Bocchieri,
  • Giulia Amoroso,
  • Gaetano Isola and
  • Gabriele Cervino

4 July 2019

Many people nowadays undergo treatments to improve their aesthetics, often neglecting the general state of health. Aesthetics and appearance have become of prime importance, perhaps correlating with of the advent of social networks and digital photog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,792 Views
14 Pages

3 July 2019

Gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogels have been used in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine because of their biocompatibility, photopatternability, printability, and tunable mechanical and rheological properties. However, low mechanical str...

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