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Maddy Nichols

Maddy Nichols is a PhD student contributor to Physics World. Maddy is a final-year PhD student at the University of Bristol, UK, working on a collaborative project between chemistry, physics and engineering on the design of smart soft materials. As a physicist originally, working in a chemistry lab is the novelty to Maddy.

When she's not doing science in the lab, Maddy can be found enthusing about the science in science fiction on the podcast The Cosmic Shed or running around mountains.

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Read article: 3D-printed hydrogels degrade on demand

3D-printed hydrogels degrade on demand

By incorporating divalent cations into alginate solutions, PhD student Thomas Valentin and colleagues at Brown University in the US have produced a noncovalently crosslinked hydrogel that is responsive to multiple stimuli. The biocompatible material, derived from algae, was used to create temporary ordered structures that could be further used as templates for fabricating more complex architectures. […]

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