Novel Polymer-Based Smart Hydrogels: Design, Properties and Applications

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Polymer-based smart hydrogels constitute a rapidly evolving and highly interdisciplinary frontier in modern materials science with diverse designs, properties, and applications. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Ning Ma; Xue-Qing Zhan; Fang‐Chang Tsai

doi:10.3390/gels12090784

September 1, 2026GelsOpen Access

Novel Polymer-Based Smart Hydrogels: Design, Properties and Applications

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Examine modern synthetic strategies, stimulus-responsive mechanisms, and physicochemical properties of polymer-based smart hydrogels, while evaluating their potential across biomedical and technological domains.
Synthesized literature on natural, synthetic, and hybrid polymer cross-linking techniques used to fabricate responsive hydrogel matrices.
Evaluated hydrogel performance under physical, chemical, and biological triggers, including pH, temperature, light, and enzymatic activity.
Stimuli-responsive polymer hydrogels exhibit reversible volume phase transitions, tunable swelling ratios, and controlled release rates upon environmental stimulation.
Hybrid and multi-responsive hydrogel networks demonstrate enhanced mechanical stability, biocompatibility, and self-healing capabilities suitable for regenerative scaffolds and biosensing devices.

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Review demonstrates design principles and stimulus-responsive behaviors in polymer smart hydrogels, highlighting their broad utility across targeted drug delivery and tissue engineering.

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