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hydrogel: a standalone construct

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Biomaterials

cross-linked polymer network that swells with large amounts of water while keeping its shape, used in contact lenses, dressings and implants.

In biomaterials, hydrogel refers to cross-linked polymer network that swells with large amounts of water while keeping its shape, used in contact lenses, dressings and implants. This meaning comes from Wichterle (1960) in Nature.[1]

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biofabrication window1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct contact2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs double-network hydrogel1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Wichterle, O., & Lím, D. (1960). Hydrophilic Gels for Biological Use. Nature, 185(4706), 117-118. https://doi.org/10.1038/185117a0

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