- Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry
- The 100 Year of Polymers Special Issue
- Self-Healing and Shape-Memory Hydrogels
Self-Healing and Shape-Memory Hydrogels
Authors : Oğuz Okay
Pages : 507-525
Doi:10.15671/hjbc.797525
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Publication Date : 2020-11-01
Article Type : Review
Abstract :Hydrogels are soft and smart materials with great similarity to biological systems. In the past decade, a significant progress has been achieved to produce mechanically strong and tough hydrogels. Another major challenge in gel science is to generate self-healing and shape-memory functions in hydrogels to extend their application areas. Several strategies have been developed to create self-healing ability in hydrogels by replacing the chemically cross-linked polymer network with a reversible one. Moreover, a combination of strong and weak physical cross-links was used to produce hydrogels with both self-healing and shape-memory behavior. In this review, I present recent developments in the field of self-healing and shape memory hydrogels by mainly focusing our achievements.Keywords : Hydrogels, Self-healing, Shape-memory