Biomaterials Science
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2022
·Vol. 11
·期 1
·278-287
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IF 7.59
Xiulin Cheng,Panjing Yin,Ting Li,Lincong Luo,Yang Yang,Ling Wang,Weiwei Su,Yilin Wang,Yanbing Li,Yanfang Wang,Yaobin Wu,Wenhua Huang
Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell transplantation is being explored as a feasible approach for treating age-related macular degeneration. The low aggregation ability of RPE cell suspensions or microtissues after transplantation has limited cell utilisation. Therefore, alternative transplantation strategies should be explored to induce cell aggregation and maintain cell viability. Herein, we propose a composite hydrogel that encapsulates gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA)/chitosan microspheres (GCMSs) as ARPE-19 cell transplantation carriers. The diameter of the GCMS was adjusted by tuning the parameters of the microfluidic devices, yielding a cell-adhering platform that induced uniform cell spreading. The live/dead assay and immunofluorescence results showed that ARPE-19 cells adhered and spread uniformly around the microspheres. Moreover, the hydrogel sheets were used to provide an aggregated protective shell, and the ARPE-19 cells on the microspheres encapsulated within these hydrogel sheets remained viable post-injection and produced fewer reactive oxygen species after cyclic stretching. Furthermore, we found that the composite hydrogel was biodegradable and biocompatible in vivo. Therefore, GCMSs provide an injectable microcarrier for ARPE-19 cells, and the hydrogel provides an aggregated protective shell in this novel platform, which has considerable potential for an alternative injectable and highly aggregated RPE cell transplantation strategy design.
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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
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2022
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IF 10.723
Yajie Zhong,Farzad Seidi,Yilin Wang,Ling Zheng,Yongcan Jin,Huining Xiao
Herein, an injectable self-healing hydrogel with inherent antibacterial activity was fabricated based on the dynamic covalent bond formation between boronic acid and catechol groups in quaternized chitosan as building blocks in conjunct with the in-situ encapsulation of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG, a green tea derivative). Benefiting from the catechol groups and therapeutic effect of EGCG, the resulting natural-based injectable hydrogels showed excellent antibacterial and antioxidant dual functions in preventing bacterial infection and scavenging radicals. The hydrogels loaded with EGCG also exhibited good biocompatibility along with contact-active antibacterial activity via a “capture and kill” strategy. The dynamic covalent bonding enables shear-thinning delivery of the gels via syringe, followed by rapid self-healing. Additionally, the in vivo wound healing evaluation in a full-thickness skin defect model revealed the appreciable and regenerative wound healing performance of the hydrogels, demonstrating their great potential as novel wound dressings for wound management.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
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2022
·Vol. 23
·期 18
·10542
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IF 6.208
Yuheng Qiu,Kaiqi Ding,Liwen Tang,Ziyu Qin,Mengting Li,Xueqiong Yin
The demand for rare earth metal increases rapidly in the modern high-tech industry and therefore the accumulation of rare earth metal ions from an aqueous environment becomes a significant concern worldwide. In this paper, a water-recyclable chitosan-based La3+-imprinted thermoresponsive hydrogel (CLIT) was prepared to accumulate La3+from solution. The CLIT was characterized by DSC, FITR, Raman spectroscopy, XPS, and SEM, which revealed obvious reversible thermosensitivity and imprinted sites of La3+ions. An adsorption capacity of 112.21 mg/g to La3+ions was achieved on CLIT under its optimum adsorption conditions (pH 5, 50 °C, 60 min). The adsorption could be well illustrated by second-order kinetics and Freundlich isotherm models. The La3+-adsorbed CLIT could be recycled only by rinsing with 10 °C cold water, with a desorption rate of 96.72%. After ten cycles of adsorption-desorption, CLIT retained good adsorption capability. In the solution containing six ions, the adsorption coefficients kLa3+/Mn+of CLIT were 2.04–3.51 times that of non-imprinted hydrogel, with kLa3+/Y3+, kLa3+/Gd3+, kLa3+/Al3+, kLa3+/Fe3+and kLa3+/Cu2+being 1.67, 2.04, 3.15, 2.72 and 4.84, respectively.Keywords:thermoresponsive hydrogel;La3+-imprinting;rare earth metal
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2023
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IF 8.2
Lin Zhao,Zhipan Feng,Yang Lyu,Jueying Yang,Lizhi Lin,Haochen Bai,Yujing Li,Yongqiang Feng,Yu Chen
Electroactive hydrogel is of great significance in restoring wound currents, promoting cell proliferation, and accelerating the wound healing process. However, the poor dispersity and underlying toxicity of electronic conductive fillers and high concentration of ionic conductors in traditional electroactive hydrogel limited its application in medical care. Herein, an electroactive oxidized sodium alginate/carboxymethyl chitosan/silver nanoparticles (OSA/CMCS/AgNPs) hydrogel was constructed with no additional conductive fillers or synthesized conductive polymers being added, in which the dynamic imine bonds were rapidly formed between aldehyde groups in OSA and amino groups in CMCS, and AgNPs were further in situ formed by UV irradiation. The electroactive hydrogel exhibited the injectable property, strong self-healing ability, excellent biocompatibility, and high antibacterial activities. Moreover, the electroactive hydrogel can significantly promote the proliferation of L929 cells under electrical stimulation. Furthermore, the electroactive hydrogel was proved to significantly accelerate the wound healing process in the full-thickness skin defect model, exhibiting anti-inflammation, promoting the fibroblasts proliferation, angiogenesis, and collagen deposition under electrical stimulation. In summary, the current work explored a novel strategy to construct the polysaccharides-based electroactive hydrogel with good biocompatibility and multi-functions, which is promising to be used in deep wound treatment.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2023
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Yang Yu,Xiaoyi Zheng,Xiuying Liu,Jiulong Zhao,Shige Wang
The postoperative recurrence has adversely affected the treatment of tumors. Besides, the potential bacterial infection at the wound site may lead to a series of tissue necrosis. Here, we developed an injectable γ-polyglutamic acid/carboxymethyl chitosan/polydopamine hydrogel (PCP) for simultaneously reducing the postoperative infection and preventing the tumor recurrence. On the one hand, the aqueous solution of carboxymethyl chitosan oxidized the dopamine into polydopamine; on the other, the carboxymethyl chitosan was cross-linked with the activated γ-polyglutamic acid to form a hydrogel. After local implantation, the PCP hydrogel effectively killed tumor cells and bacteria under 808 nm laser irradiation. In addition, carboxymethyl chitosan rendered the hydrogel with anti-bacterial properties as well as anti-tumor efficiencies. The anti-tumor recurrence and anti-bacterial efficiencies of PCP hydrogel were proved on a tumor-removed mouse model and a Staphylococcus aureus -infected mouse model, respectively. Moreover, the hydrogel has the advantages of good biocompatibility and simple preparation, and thus has potential application prospects in the prevention of tumor recurrence and wound bacterial infection.
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ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
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2023
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Min Tan,Fan Liu,Li-Guo Liao,Jun-Feng Feng,Fu-Zhong Zhang,Shu-Ting Fan,Jia-Xin Wang,Kun Guo,Bang-Jing Li,Sheng Zhang
Uncontrolled bleeding is one of the most important causes threatening human health, but quick hemostasis remains a challenge. We prepared porous cryogels with poly β-cyclodextrin (Pβ-CD) and quaternary ammoniated chitosan (QCs). Pβ-CD acts as a “water-grabbing agent” to assist QCs’ ability to absorb and concentrate blood rapidly. The rat-tail amputation model and liver injury model exhibited that cryogels had excellent hemostatic performance. Moreover, cryogels showed good antibacterial activity and biocompatibility. Therefore, these cryogels can be used as potential hemostatic materials.
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Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials
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2022
·Vol. 6
·期 1
·1-14
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IF 11.806
Xiao Lin,Xu Weichang,Huang Lixia,Liu Jili,Yang Guang
Effective postoperative therapy is crucial for preventing tumor recurrence and metastasis. Nanocomposite (NC) pastes of Gel/CS-g-CD NP with unique viscoelastic properties and pH-responsive drug delivery ability were prepared from gelatin (Gel) and β-cyclodextrin-grafted chitosan nanoparticles (CS-g-CD NPs) through host–guest interactions between the aromatic amino acid residues of gelatin and β-cyclodextrin. The dynamic rheological properties, shear strength, and shear viscosity were modulated through variations in the concentration of CS-g-CD NPs in the NC pastes. Due to the reversibility of the host–guest interactions, the NC pastes exhibited shear-thinning and self-healing properties, endowing them with good injectability. Loading of doxorubicin (DOX) in the nanoparticles (DOX-CSCD NPs) forming the NC pastes of Gel/DOX-CSCD NP allowed pH-triggered DOX release in a simulated tumoral microenvironment, because of the labile nature of the CS-g-CD NPs under acidic conditions. In vitro experiments showed that the NC pastes of Gel/DOX-CSCD NP induced sustained tumor cell inhibition. Moreover, in vivo studies with tumor-bearing mice indicated that the NC pastes of Gel/DOX-CSCD NP can effectively inhibit tumor recurrence after surgical resection. Therefore, the NC pastes described in this work may act as an effective injectable drug delivery system for postoperative tumoral treatment.
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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
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2022
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Chennan Liu,Junhong Ling,Li-Ye Yang,Xiao-kun Ouyang,Nan Wang
Infection represents a major clinical barrier that delays wound healing , while the overuse of antibiotics can lead to bacterial resistance . Hence, it is of particular important to develop a new type of dressing to combat bacterial resistance. Herein, a carbon nitride-polydopamine‑silver complex (C 3 N 4 -PDA-Ag) was prepared using the photocatalyst C 3 N 4 and silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) to achieve a synergistic antimicrobial effect. The solution casting method was then employed to further modify the C 3 N 4 -PDA-Ag complex by compounding it with chitosan (CS), thereby forming a C 3 N 4 -PDA-Ag@CS film. The results revealed that the C 3 N 4 -PDA-Ag@CS film exhibits superior antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa compared to the CS group. The hemolysis, cytotoxicity, and in vivo implantation experiments indicated that the composite film possesses excellent in vitro and in vivo biocompatibility. In addition, the composite dressing promoted wound healing in infected mice by facilitating collagen deposition and accelerating epidermal regeneration. Collectively, the findings of this study clearly demonstrate that the C 3 N 4 -PDA-Ag@CS composite dressing has excellent antibacterial properties , biocompatibility, and enhances wound healing, thus providing a strategy for the application of photocatalytic materials for the treatment of infected wounds.
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POLYMER BULLETIN
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2023
·Vol. 80
·期 12
·12865-12879
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IF 3.2
Zhang Dawei,Wang Jiaming,Ren Lu,Meng Xiangchun,Luan Boyi,Zhang Yumin
The existence of fine oil droplets that are difficult to coalesce greatly reduces the oil–water separation efficiency of alkali‒surfactant‒polymer (ASP) flooding-produced water. In order to improve the oil–water separation efficiency and promote the reinjection of ASP-produced water, a novel cationic graft copolymer CDC was obtained by ultrasonically assisted copolymerization of chitosan and dimethyl diallyl ammonium chloride under the initiation of cerium ions. The copolymer CDC was characterized by FT-IR, XRD, TGA and SEM, and it was confirmed that the grafting reaction proceeded successfully. The flocculation effect of copolymer CDC on ASP-produced water (Nan 4–8, pH = 7.83; Sanyuan-6, pH = 9.95) was investigated. Copolymer CDC has better oil removal rate (90.5%) and light transmittance (95.25%) to Nan 4–8 produced water compared with Sanyuan-6-produced water. It has a better oil removal effect when the initial pH of produced water is 6–7 and the temperature is 30 °C. After the addition of CDC, the large-diameter oil droplets in produced water will coalesce and separate. It may be that under weak acid or neutral conditions, the electrostatic attraction of produced water is enhanced, compressing the double electron layer of oil droplets, and destroying the stability of oil droplets. In addition, the hydrophobic effect of –CH=CH 2 in CDC molecules increases the hydrophobic association between molecules and increases the probability of oil droplet collision during the flocculation process.
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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
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2023
·Vol. 44
·期 8
·2200928
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Xiaotong Wei,Jie Li,Zhirui Hu,Chen Wang,Zhiqiang Gao,Yang Cao,Jing Han,Yingchun Li
In recent years, hydrogels have attracted extensive attention in smart sensing owing to their biocompatibility and high elasticity. However, it is still a challenge to develop hydrogels with excellent multiple responsiveness for smart wearable sensors. In this paper, a facile synthesis of carbon quantum dots (CQDs)-doped cross-linked chitosan quaternary/carboxymethylcellulose hydrogels (CCCDs) is presented. Designing of dual network hydrogels decorated with CQDs provides abundant crosslinking and improves the mechanical properties of the hydrogels. The hydrogel-based strain sensor exhibits excellent sensitivity (gauge factor: 9.88), linearity ( R 2 : 0.97), stretchable ability (stress: 0.67 MPa; strain: 404%), good cyclicity, and durability. The luminescent properties are endowed by the CQDs further broaden the application of hydrogels for realizing flexible electronics. More interestingly, the strain sensor based on CCCDs hydrogel demonstrates photo responsiveness (Δ R / R 0 ≈20%) and pH responsiveness (pH range ≈4–7) performance. CCCDs hydrogels can be used for gesture recognition and light sensing switch. As a proof-of-concept, a smart wearable sensor is designed for monitoring human activities and detecting pH variation in human sweat during exercise. This study reveals new possibilities for further applications in wearable health monitoring.
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JOURNAL OF DISPERSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2023
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Jinghui Zhan,Huayao Chen,Hongjun Zhou,Li Hao,Hua Xu,Xinhua Zhou
Tea tree oil (TTO) is a broad-spectrum natural antimicrobial agent. Its application is limited due to its volatile property. To reduce its volatility and improve its sustained-release performance, a synergistic sustained-release system was prepared. Montmorillonite (Mt) was ion-exchanged with sodium ions (Na+) and zinc ions (Zn2+), then organically modified with cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) and chitosan (CS) to improve its sustained release performance. The results indicated that Mt was exfoliated, but still maintained its ordered layer structure. The surface of CS-Zn-OMt was rough, because some pores and surfaces were filled. The addition of Zn2+ increased the loading of CS (37.8 − 40.8%) and induced more uniform distribution of CS on Mt. Also, CS-Zn-OMt achieved a high loading capacity for TTO and the loading value was 222.0 mg*g−1. Furthermore, the release studies showed that CS-Zn-OMt exhibited sustained-release behavior due to the release from the outer layer of CS and the Mt channel simultaneously. The results of antibacterial test showed that the addition of CS inhibited the drift of Mt and showed good antibacterial performance because of strong effective drug-carrier interaction. The developed system can be potentially applied for the delivery of volatile essential oils for antibacterial infection.
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Advanced Materials Interfaces
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2022
·Vol. 10
·期 5
·2202065
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Wen-Ying Yang,Di Zhou,Jia-Lu Shen,Zhi-Kang Xu,Ling-Shu Wan
Co-deposition of phenols and amines inspired by mussel-inspired chemistry has attracted much attention in the field of surface and interface science and technology. However, most deposition systems are still limited to phenols with at least one catechol group. In this work, a novel enzyme-triggered co-deposition system based on a natural phenol (gentisic acid, GA) and a kind of biomacromolecule (chitosan, CS) is reported. With the catalysis of laccase, GA can be oxidized and further react with CS to form effective surface coatings on various substrates such as polypropylene microfiltration membrane (PPMM). The co-deposition process takes only 40 min at room temperature and endows the membrane with superhydrophilicity and underwater superoleophobicity. The modified membranes show excellent separation performance, reusability, and long-term stability for the separation of oil-in-water emulsions. The modified membranes are highly charged (pI ≈7.2) and capable of efficient dye adsorption. In addition, the modified membranes possess better protein resistance properties compared with the nascent membranes. This work demonstrates a green, mild, and highly efficient surface modification process based on laccase catalysis. The co-deposition system comes from natural sources and expands the phenol family for constructing multi-functional surface coatings.
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