麻省理工科研人员开发出一种水凝胶材料，可以与载药系统、诸如温度传感器、LED灯元件以及其它电子设备协同使用，成为一种智能化的水凝胶材料，可用于生物医用领域，比如智能创伤敷料（绷带）。
这种水凝胶材料可与皮肤表面具有良好的相容性，可紧密粘合，也可以与其它材料比如玻璃、金属和陶瓷表面贴合。该水凝胶材料还具有优异的力学性能，良好的拉伸性能使材料可以随着人体关节弯曲而自适应，且不损坏安装在水凝胶上的功能元件发挥作用。
如果您感兴趣，请阅读参考文献：Stretchable Hydrogel Electronics and Devices，Shaoting Lin,Hyunwoo Yuk,Teng Zhang,German Alberto Parada,Hyunwoo Koo,Cunjiang Yu,Xuanhe Zhao，Advanced Materials，DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504152。Stretchable hydrogel electronics and devices are designed by integrating stretchable conductors, functional chips, drug-delivery channels, and reservoirs into stretchable, robust, and biocompatible hydrogel matrices. Novel applications include a smart wound dressing capable of sensing the temperatures of various locations on the skin, delivering different drugs to these locations, and subsequently maintaining sustained releases of drugs。本文资料来源：MIT。