Developing conductive hydrogels for biomedical applications

Conductive hydrogels have attracted copious attention owing to their grateful performances, such as similarity to biological tissues, compliance, conductivity and biocompatibility. A diversity of conductive hydrogels have been developed and showed versatile potentials in biomedical applications. In this review, we highlight the recent advances in conductive hydrogels, involving the various types and functionalities of conductive hydrogels as well as their applications in biomedical fields. Furthermore, the current challenges and the reasonable outlook of conductive hydrogels are also given. It is expected that this review will provide potential guidance for the advancement of next-generation conductive hydrogels. A review concerning the development of conductive hydrogels for biomedical applications has been provided. We have highlighted the recent advances in conductive hydrogels involving the various types and functionalities of conductive hydrogels as well as their applications in biomedical fields. The critical viewpoints and future improvement direction are also given. We do believe this review will provide important guidance for the future advancement of conductive hydrogels. image