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Multicompartment hydrogels, featuring diverse internal structures, offer advanced properties for applications in tissue engineering, drug delivery, and soft robotics. Their development is crucial for future organic devices and biomedicine.

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  • Tailoring hydrogel properties involves modifying crosslinking, shape, reinforcement, and composition, with compartmentalization offering new functionalities.

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  • To review the latest advancements in multicompartment hydrogels.
  • To focus on micellar/vesicular, droplet, and multilayered compartments.
  • To discuss various morphologies and applications of compartmentalized hydrogels.

Main Methods:

  • Review of recent literature on multicompartment hydrogels.
  • Categorization based on compartment types (micellar/vesicular, droplets, multilayers).
  • Analysis of different compartmentalized hydrogel morphologies and their applications.

Main Results:

  • Multicompartment hydrogels enable the creation of complex and highly functional soft materials.
  • Key compartment types include micellar/vesicular, droplets, and multilayers.
  • Diverse morphologies and applications are emerging from compartmentalized hydrogel designs.

Conclusions:

  • Further development of multicompartment hydrogels is highly relevant for a broad range of applications.
  • These advanced hydrogels will significantly impact biomedicine and organic devices.
  • The field holds substantial promise for future innovations in soft materials.