Hydrogels for Soft Machines

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Morphing in nature and beyond: a review of natural and synthetic shape-changing materials and mechanisms (2016, background): “[106] Calvert P (2009) Hydrogels for soft machines.”
Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels (2012, background): “The scope of applications, however, is often severely limited by the mechanical behavior of hydrogels [5].”
Structure and properties of hydrogels prepared from cellulose in NaOH/urea aqueous solutions (2010, neutral): “…substitutes for skin, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and one, because of their excellent hydrophilicity, permeability, comatibility and low coefficient of friction (Calvert, 2009; Chang, Duan, ai, & Zhang 2010; Chan, Whitney, & Neufeld, 2009; Liu & Fan, 2005; amamoto, Takahashi, & Tabata, 2003).”
Additive manufacturing of tissues and organs (2012, neutral): “The interested reader is referred to the review by Calvert [144] for a more comprehensive overview.”
Advances in Mechanics of Soft Materials: A Review of Large Deformation Behavior of Hydrogels (2015, background): “The potential applications involving hydrogels has grown exponentially to include areas such as biomedical systems, actuators and flow control [Calvert, 2009; Satarkar et al., 2010; Tomatsuet al., 2011; Ward and Georgiou, 2011].”