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ArticleACS macro letters2019

Modern Strategies To Achieve Tissue-Mimetic, Mechanically Robust Hydrogels.

A Kristen Means, Melissa A Grunlan

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Article in ACS macro letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

A Kristen MeansDepartment of Materials Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3003, United States.
Melissa A GrunlanDepartment of Materials Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3003, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5428-0461

Funding

A Self-Cleaning Membrane to Extend the Lifetime of an Implanted Glucose BiosensorR01DK095101 · NIDDK · TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION · PI GRUNLAN, MELISSA · 2012 to 2016
$1.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK095101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydrogels are frequently used biomaterials due to their similarity in hydration and structure to biological tissues. However, their utility is limited by poor mechanical properties, namely, a lack of strength and stiffness that mimic that of tissues, particularly load-bearing tissues. Thus, numerous recent strategies have sought to enhance and tune these properties in hydrogels, including interpenetrating networks (IPNs), macromolecular cross-linking, composites, thermal conditioning, polyampholytes, and dual cross-linking. Individually, these approaches have achieved hydrogels with either high strength (

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PMID33912358
PMCPMC8077972

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