Hydrogels in a historical perspective: from simple networks to smart materials.

By Sytze J Buwalda, Kristel W. M. Boere, P. Dijkstra, J. Feijen, T. Vermonden, W. E. Hennink. Journal of Controlled Release, 2014

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In situ Forming Injectable Hydrogels for Drug Delivery and Wound Repair (2018, positive): “Hydrogels are highly-crosslinked, water swollen networks of hydrophilic polymers, which have been studied extensively over the past six decades, and have demonstrated profound promise as bio-compatible materials in numerous therapeutic applications [1].”
Cross-linked nanocomposite hydrogels based on cellulose nanocrystals and PVA: Mechanical properties and creep recovery (2016, methodology): “freeze/thaw processing has been used to prepare physically cross-linked hydrogels since the 1970s [7, 8].”
Fatigue of double-network hydrogels (2017, background): “The history of synthetic hydrogels is rather short [1].”