Self-healing polyurethane-elastomer with mechanical tunability for multiple biomedical applications in vivo

The unique properties of self-healing materials hold great potential in the field of biomedical engineering. Here, the authors designed a series of biodegradable and biocompatible self-healing elastomers with tunable mechanical properties, and apply them to various disease models in vivo, including...

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Main Authors: Chenyu Jiang, Luzhi Zhang, Qi Yang, Shixing Huang, Hongpeng Shi, Qiang Long, Bei Qian, Zenghe Liu, Qingbao Guan, Mingjian Liu, Renhao Yang, Qiang Zhao, Zhengwei You, Xiaofeng Ye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24680-x