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Fungal chitin offers new route to tougher hydrogels for medical devices and soft robots

Fungal chitin offers new route to tougher hydrogels for medical devices and soft robotsWorldPing

Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, have made an advance by using a natural substance from fungi called chitin to create hydrogels that are significantl…

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