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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Soft, strong, tough, and durable protein-based fiber hydrogels.

Mingkun Wang, Shuofei Sun, Gening Dong, Feifei Long, Jonathan T Butcher

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. AI-powered the toughest biohydrogels.Bioactive materials · 2026
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  12. Mussel-inspired cross-linking mechanisms enhance gelation and adhesion of multifunctional mucin-derived hydrogels.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  13. Black Phosphorus Tagged Responsive Strontium Hydrogel Particles for Bone Defect Repair.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mingkun WangMeinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.ORCID 0000-0002-9273-7645
Shuofei SunMeinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.ORCID 0000-0003-0060-4835
Gening DongMeinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.ORCID 0000-0002-8503-2866
Feifei LongMeinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
Jonathan T ButcherMeinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.ORCID 0000-0002-9309-6296

Funding

Mechanobiology of Cardiac Outflow Tract MorphogenesisR01HL160028 · NHLBI · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI BUTCHER, JONATHAN TALBOT · 2022 to 2025
$3.1M
Endothelial-Interstitial Interactions in Aortic Valve Homeostasis and DiseaseR01HL143247 · NHLBI · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI BUTCHER, JONATHAN TALBOT · 2018 to 2022
$2.4M
Adhesive signaling in aortic valve development and diseaseR01HL128745 · NHLBI · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI BUTCHER, JONATHAN TALBOT · 2015 to 2018
$1.5M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL128745NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL143247NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL160028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Load-bearing soft tissues normally show J-shaped stress-strain behaviors with high compliance at low strains yet high strength at high strains. They have high water content but are still tough and durable. By contrast, naturally derived hydrogels are weak and brittle. Although hydrogels prepared from synthetic polymers can be strong and tough, they do not have the desired bioactivity for emerging biomedical applications. Here, we present a thermomechanical approach to replicate the combinational properties of soft tissues in protein-based photocrosslinkable hydrogels. As a demonstration, we create a gelatin methacryloyl fiber hydrogel with soft tissue-like mechanical properties, such as low Young's modulus (0.1 to 0.3 MPa), high strength (1.1 ± 0.2 MPa), high toughness (9,100 ± 2,200 J/m

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Biocompatible MaterialsHydrogelsPolymersTissue EngineeringWaterBiocompatible MaterialsHydrogelsPolymersWaterantifatigue hydrogelsgelatin methacryloylmechanosensingmicrofiberssoft-tissue engineering

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PMID36791112
PMCPMC9974439

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