Imagine making clean drinking water from the air using food scraps, seashells, or twigs. That’s exactly what a team of ...

He recently created an injectable water filtration system, and he has applied his hydrogel technology to farming. The research team is now working on scaling production and designing real-world ...

This new “molecularly functionalized biomass hydrogels” system can convert a wide range of natural products into sorbents, materials that absorb liquids. By combining these sorbents with mild ...

Researchers at UT Austin have developed a system using molecularly functionalized biomass hydrogels that convert discarded natural materials into sorbents, enabling water extraction from air even in ...

A double network hydrogel being stretched to different lengths. The necked region of the hydrogel indicates rupture of the first polymer network (Photo: WPI-ICReDD). New double network hydrogel ...

They are usually soft and weak, but can be made hard and tough. Hydrogels are gels that have water as their main constituent. Stimuli responsive hydrogels can be used in optical communication ...