Journal
BIOACTIVE MATERIALS
Volume 21, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.09.002
Keywords
Adhesive hydrogel; Specific adhesion; Receptor-ligand interaction; Mechanochemical coupling model
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This study presents a hydrogen bonding-mediated hydrogel that exhibits specific adhesion to polar surfaces in an ultra-fast and robust manner, demonstrating enhanced adhesive strength and toughness. The hydrogel is biocompatible, possesses antioxidant and antibacterial properties, and promotes wound healing.
Biological receptor-ligand adhesion governed by mammalian cells involves a series of mechanochemical pro-cesses that can realize reversible, loading rate-dependent specific interfacial bonding, and even exhibit a counterintuitive behavior called catch bonds that tend to have much longer lifetimes when larger pulling forces are applied. Inspired by these catch bonds, we designed a hydrogen bonding-meditated hydrogel made from acrylic acid-N-acryloyl glycinamide (AA-NAGA) copolymers and tannic acids (TA), which formed repeatable specific adhesion to polar surfaces in an ultra-fast and robust way, but hardly adhered to nonpolar materials. It demonstrated up to five-fold increase in shear adhesive strength and interfacial adhesive toughness with external loading rates varying from 5 to 500 mm min-1. With a mechanochemical coupling model based on Monte Carlo simulations, we quantitatively revealed the nonlinear dependence of rate-sensitive interfacial adhesion on external loading, which was in good agreement with the experimental data. Likewise, the developed hydrogels were biocompatible, possessed antioxidant and antibacterial properties and promoted wound healing. This work not only reports a stimuli-responsive hydrogel adhesive suitable for multiple biomedical applications, but also offers an innovative strategy for bionic designs of smart hydrogels with loading rate-sensitive specific adhesion for various emerging areas including flexible electronics and soft robotics.
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