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BIOMACROMOLECULES
Volume 21, Issue 12, Pages 4663-4672Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00603
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- China Scholarship Council [201506550007]
- European Research Council [772462]
- European Research Council (ERC) [772462] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Dynamic photoresponsive synthetic hydrogels offer important advantages for biomaterials design, from the ability to cure hydrogels and encapsulate cells in situ to the light-mediated control of cell-spreading and tissue formation. We report the facile and effective photocuring and photoremodeling of disulfide-cross-linked hyaluronic acid hydrogels, based on photo-oxidation of corresponding thiol residues and their radical-mediated photodegradation. We find that the mechanical properties of disulfide hydrogels and the extent of their photoremodeling can be tuned by controlling the photo-oxidation and photodegradation reactions, respectively. This enables not only the photopatterning of the mechanical properties of hydrogels but also their self-healing and photomediated healing. Finally, we demonstrate the ability to encapsulate mesenchymal stromal cells within these materials and to regulate their protrusion and spreading in 3D matrices by controlling the mechanical properties of the disulfide networks. Therefore, synthetically accessible photoconfigurable disulfide hydrogels offer interesting opportunities for the design of soft biomaterials and the regulation of cell encapsulation and matrix remodeling for tissue engineering.
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