Zwitterionic hydrogel designs for conducting polymers enable bioelectronics with suppressed foreign body response
Shinya Wai, Seoung‐Hun Kang, Nan Li, Yahao Dai, Tera L. Lavoie, Joseph W. Strzalka, Sean Sutyak, Maximilian Weires, Tianda Fu, Jin Wang, Kaden C. Stevens, Ruojia Li, Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Matthew Tirrell, Sihong Wang
This paper develops a zwitterionic hydrogel-based double-network design for PEDOT:PSS that suppresses the foreign body response by 64% and improves conductivity by over one order of magnitude.
bioRxiv · Oct 31, 2025 · PreprintBioengineering