# Soft and tough bio-composites via integration of agricultural products and polymer gels

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## Created at

2026-02-18T07:37:08.776071Z

## Updated at

2026-02-19T07:30:13.317637Z

## Published at

2026-02-19T05:09:19.431630Z

## Doi

https://doi.org/10.48505/nims.6183

## First published url

https://doi.org/10.1080/14686996.2025.2604923

## Date published

2026-12-31

## Recorded date published

2026-12-31

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## Title

- title: Soft and tough bio-composites via integration of agricultural products and
    polymer gels
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: As an extension of fiber-reinforced plastics, research on fiber-reinforced
    soft hydrogels has attracted remarkable attention. From the perspective of sustainability,
    it is desirable to use biopolymers such as cellulose and chitin as the fibrous
    phase of these hydrogel composites. However, obtaining biopolymer-based fibers
    from plants or fungi generally requires environmentally harmful processes such
    as extraction, purification, and reconstruction of the target biopolymers. To
    avoid this problem, this study aimed to obtain tough biopolymer/hydrogel composites
    with minimal environmental impact. Specifically, minimally processed eringi (king
    oyster mushroom) and kanpyo (dried shaved gourd) were directly used as the fibrous
    phase, and hydrogel matrices were prepared within them to make the bio-composites.
    The hierarchical fibrous structure of the biopolymers inherently present in eringi
    and kanpyo was well preserved in the bio-composites. The resulting composites
    exhibited high strength and toughness originating from the well-aligned fibrous
    biopolymers in the bio-composites.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: en

## Creator

- name: Honoka Matsuura
  role: author
  organization: Hokkaido University
  department: a Graduate School of Life Science
- name: Kagari Maruyama
  role: author
- name: Shou Ohmura
  role: author
- name: Jian Ping Gong
  role: author
- name: Tasuku Nakajima
  role: author

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## Publisher

organization: Taylor & Francis

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## Keyword

- subject: Composite
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- subject: hydrogel
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- subject: bio-composite
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- subject: reinforcement
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- subject: eringi
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- subject: kanpyo
  schema: not_defined

## Rights

- identifier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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## Journal

- title: Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
  issn: '14686996'
  volume: '27'
  article_number: '2604923'

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