Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Hybrid assembly of polymeric nanofiber network for robust and electronically conductive hydrogels

  • Huimin He,
  • Hao Li,
  • Aoyang Pu,
  • Wenxiu Li,
  • Kiwon Ban,
  • Lizhi Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36438-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Mechanically robust and electrically conductive hydrogels remain challenging to fabricate. Here, the authors present polymeric nanofiber networks with structural robustness and high electronic conductivity and show that cardiomyocytes cultured on these hydrogels exhibit spontaneous and synchronous beating.