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Representative hydrogel scheme from macro‐ to atomic scale. At macroscale we see a prepared gel pad in a swollen (left) and freshly prepared (right) state. On a micro/nanoscale we see the 3D crosslinked polymer structure with a certain pore size (micro) or mesh size ξ (nano). On atomic scale a few typical examples of either chemical or physical crosslinking are represented.
