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In this episode, I discuss a special group of materials called hydrogels. For something that is hardly ever mentioned publically, it has a surprising amount of uses in the world...

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Sources

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogel

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophile

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyacrylamide

4. https://waterbeads.net/msd-sheet/

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LncMVXrA-iw (every day uses of these beads

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBkXDxcO-Pg (Good reference)

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE1xk1rlrGg (nice reference)

8. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogel

9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloid

10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel

11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superabsorbent_polymer

12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-healing_hydrogels

13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogel_agriculture

14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin

15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen

16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitreous_body