Rongyan He,Qiuyu Cao,Wenhui Yan,Shuting Xiao,Xiaoying Liang,Yuxiu Ye,Dongting Zhangsun,Sulan Luo
Effective wound management is crucial for improved outcomes through timely, personalized therapies. Current dressing-based treatments lack dynamic regulation and microenvironment modulation, leading to suboptimal healing. Integrating electrical stimulation therapy with electro-controlled drug delivery promotes skin generation, ensures precise dosing, and accelerates healing. Flexible electronic patches are ideal platforms for these synergistic therapies but face challenges: rigid post-manufacture shapes and sizes limit adaptability to diverse wound geometries, and substrate materials struggle to meet both wound-healing and electronic requirements. This study develops a tailorable, transferable flexible electronic patch with a hexagonal modular design, enabling shape/size customization while maintaining electrical continuity. The water-transfer printing (WTP) technique is used to conveniently transfer conductive chondroitin sulfate (CS) hydrogel (as electrodes and drug reservoirs) and silver circuits onto clinical dressings. This method endows clinical dressings with functionality of electro-controlled drug release and electrical stimulation, simultaneously addressing substrate performance limitations of flexible electronic patches. The patch demonstrates uniform electrical signal transmission, precise electro-responsive drug control in CS hydrogels, and adaptability to wounds of different geometries. It retains electrostimulation and electro-controlled drug delivery performance after cutting, significantly promoting wound healing. This study provides a potential approach to support the advancement of flexible electronics research and clinical translation.
3D flower-like UiO-66-NH 2 @ZiF-8 (UZ) nanoparticles have porous structural properties and multifunctional functional groups exposed on the surface, which provide significant advantages in improving compatibility with polymers and exceptional molecular sieve performance. Poly( p -phenylene terephthamide) PPTA is an acid/alkali resistant porous membrane material. However, the preparation of highly permeable and selective nanofiltration (NF) membranes is still a challenging problem due to the low permeability of PPTA NF membranes. Therefore, in this study, PPTA/UiO-66-NH 2 @ZiF-8 (PUZ) membranes were prepared using spacer spray-assisted interfacial polymerization. It was investigated that the effects of different additions of 3D flower-like UZ nanoparticles on the physicochemical properties and structure of PUZ membranes. The results showed that the polyamide structures with different morphologies were formed on the PUZ membranes surface by depositing 3D flower-like UZ nanoparticles at a spraying frequency of 12 min −1 . When 1.3 g/L of 3D flower-like UZ nanoparticles were interval sprayed, the PUZ4 membranes surface showed a unique doughnut-like structure and featured tubular and doughnut-like interconnections. PUZ4 membranes exhibited 4.4 times higher permeance and maintained excellent dye rejection (methylene blue dye permeance up to 58.23 L/m 2 ∙h∙MPa and methylene blue dye rejection of 99.60 %) compared to pristine PPTA NF membranes (methylene blue dye permeance up to 13.25 L/m 2 ∙h∙MPa and methylene blue dye rejection of 92.10 %). In addition, the modified PUZ4 membranes had a great antifouling performance with a recovery ratio of 99.43 % for more than 6 cycles and a high rejection rate of 98.51 % at 0.1 MPa.
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) and layered double oxides (LDOs) are desirable adsorption materials for printing and wastewater treatment owing to their outstanding anion exchange abilities, abundant active sites, and eco-friendly nature. In this study, a versatile LDO hybrid coated with carbon dots (CDs@MgAl-LDO) was constructed by modifying sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate on the surface of MgAl-LDH as a carbon precursor, followed by ligand carbonization and hydrotalcite dehydration at 450 °C under N 2 flow. CDs@MgAl-LDO displayed a hexagonal lamellar architecture with a plate lateral size of approximately 500 nm. It had a higher BET specific surface area (28.61 m 2 /g) than MgAl-LDO (11.48 m 2 /g). X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that CDs@MgAl-LDO maintained the “memory effect” of LDOs and could retrieve the original structure when dispersed in water. Moreover, the modified carbon dots change the intrinsically hydrophilic nature of LDOs and help to improve the affinity for organic contaminants , including both cationic and anionic dyes. The adsorption of dyes on CDs@MgAl-LDO followed a pseudo-second-order kinetic model with correlation coefficients (R 2 ) ranging from 0.9901 to 0.9911 and exhibited Freundlich-type heterogeneous adsorption. It showed superior adsorption performance for three dyes, with the maximum adsorption capacity of 3628.9–5174.1 mg/g, thereby outperforming previously reported LDH-based adsorbents. This work developed a facile approach for preparing new carbon dots-LDH hybrids for the highly efficient removal of multiple dyes.