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ArticleScientific reports2026

Hydrogels in medicine and biotechnology.

Silviya P Zustiak, Jeffrey Bates

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Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Silviya P ZustiakDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, USA. silviya.zustiak@slu.edu.
Jeffrey BatesDepartment of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks with a large amount of water; hydrogels can be found naturally, such as collagen and gelatin, or can be made synthetically. The latter are nowadays more in demand due to their higher water absorption capacity and long service life; their tunable properties and versatile fabrication methods have been exploited in a variety of engineering applications, including sensing technologies and drug screening. Because of their similar characteristics to soft biological tissues, hydrogels have also been the focus of research in the biomaterials community and have been studied for their use in biomedical applications such as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. This Collection on hydrogels highlights some exciting hydrogel developments and applications.

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Biocompatible MaterialsBiotechnologyHydrogelsAnimalsHumansRegenerative MedicineTissue EngineeringBiocompatible MaterialsHydrogels

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PMCPMC13294351

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