These smart gels were inspired by the color-changing skin of cuttlefish, octopuses and squids.

Super-flexible display could enable real-life active camouflage

Squid Army

A team of engineers from Rutgers University in New Jersey have created a 3D-printed smart gel that can change its shape when exposed to light.

Super-Flexible Display Could Enable Real-Life Active Camouflage

"Our research supports a new engineering approach featuring camouflage that can be added to soft materials and create flexible, colorful displays."

The hydrogel quickly healed nerve damage in rats and toads.

Scientists claim to invent hydrogel that heals nerve damage

Neural Spackling

A new hydrogel, when implanted into rats and toads, worked like a bridge between damaged nerves and healed them faster than other techniques.

Scientists Claim to Invent Hydrogel That Heals Nerve Damage

READ MORE: <a href="https://phys.org/news/2020-10-hydrogel-nerves.html">A hydrogel that could help repair damaged nerves</a> [American Chemical Society]

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Treatments

They say the gel can propagate neural signals where nerves are injured.

The material can be used in many fields — including robotics and medicine.

Scientists manipulated a material for robots that grows like human skin

Health & Medicine

Scientists have established a method of growing hydrogel in a manner similar to the organic growth of plant or animal tissue. Robots are among the uses.

Scientists Manipulated a Material for Robots That Grows Like Human Skin

This opens up new possibilities in tissue engineering and soft robotics.

Your injury could one day be treated with hydrogel.

Introducing the hydrogel "smart Band-Aid."

Electrically conductive hydrogel has the power to heal your body

Hydrogel based bandages can store medicine and electronics in tiny reservoirs, and may one day be as common in households as a Band-Aid.

Electrically Conductive Hydrogel Has the Power to Heal Your Body

DNA is the new medium of choice for material scientists.

Scientists are creating materials from DNA

Hard Science

Scientists have developed a method that allows them to create new materials from DNA that could be useful for medical applications.

Scientists Are Creating Materials From DNA

Gene editing can be used for much more than treating diseases.

This tough, stretchy fiber could have a range of practical uses.

This synthetic spider silk is only slightly inferior to its natural counterpart and can be created at room temperature.

Scientists Have Created a Synthetic Spider Silk That is Stronger Than Steel

It could be used for bulletproof vests, bike helmets, and so much more.

This Hydrogel Stops Uncontrolled Bleeding Quickly

Robots & Machines

Scientists at MIT created a new hydrogel-elastomer material that can be used to make synthetic skins, deliver drugs, and improve wearable technology.

MIT Engineers Develop Tough New Hydrogel Inspired by Human Skin

The new material can be used to create synthetic skin and deliver drugs.

This is the key to humanity’s cyborg future.

Enhanced Humans

This is the key to humanity's cyborg future. 

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