Bioinspired flexible, high-strength, and versatile hydrogel with the fiberboard-and-mortar hierarchically ordered structure

The synthetic hydrogels with high water contents are promising for various applications, however, they usually exhibit low mechanical properties. In this work, inspired by the natural biological soft tissues, whose hierarchically ordered fibrous structures result in high strength and good flexibility, a flexible, high-strength, and versatile hydrogel with the fiberboard-and-mortar hierarchically ordered structure (HFMOS) is developed based on...