The sea cucumber-inspired design and manufacturing of hard/soft switchable hydrogels (IMAGE)

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

The sea cucumber-inspired design and manufacturing of hard/soft switchable hydrogels

Caption

Inspired by the hardness-changing behavior of sea cucumbers, a 3D-printed hard/soft switchable hydrogel was successfully developed by infusing a phase transition hydrated salt solution into the printed hydrogel structure.

Credit

By Guofeng Liu, Pengcheng Xia, Weicheng Kong, Tianhong Qiao, Yuan Sun, Wenjie Ren and Yong He

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