Researchers have developed a plant-based hydrogel to create shape-changing, navigable small-scale robots with potential applications in biomedicine, including conducting medical procedures such as ...

Humans' relationships with plants is largely utilitarian ... with seeds woven into hydrogel material for hairbands, wristbands, hats and sandals, among other applications. The seeds grow into ...

Texas-based researchers have developed a sustainable plant-based material that could potentially reduce or eliminate reliance on bottled water while addressing water scarcity, a major global issue.

In response, plants’ normal biochemistry gets out of whack ... Onto this patterned surface they coated a chitosan-based hydrogel mixture that converted small changes in hydrogen peroxide into ...

When applied, the gel forms a mechanical barrier to halt bleeding, allowing the body to create a natural clot. In January, Traumagel, a plant-based hemostatic gel that controls bleeding in seconds ...

Dutta is a UW chemistry professor. The funded project by Weinig, a UW botany professor, and Oakey, a UW professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, explores the feasibility of using hydrogel ...