Chinese team creates ‘lifelike’ hydrogel that changes shape for smart devices

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Chinese researchers have developed a “lifelike” shape-changing hydrogel they say could provide a platform for next-generation developments, such as flexible tissue engineering scaffolds, brain-computer interfaces and humanlike robots…

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