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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 1008-1016Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8sc04292f
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- Israel Science Foundation [ISF 1613/16]
- Minerva Center for Biohybrid Complex Systems
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21420102004]
- Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project [2018SHZDZX03]
- international cooperation program of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee [17520750100]
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A new class of stimuli-responsive DNA-based polyacrylamide hydrogels is described. They consist of glucosamine-boronate ester-crosslinked polyacrylamide chains being cooperatively bridged by stimuli-responsive nucleic acids. The triggered closure and dissociation of the stimuli-responsive units lead to switchable stiffness properties of the hydrogel. One hydrogel includes glucosamine-boronate esters and K+-ion-stabilized G-quadruplex units as cooperative crosslinkers. The hydrogel bridged by the two motifs reveals high stiffness, whereas the separation of the G-quadruplex bridges by 18-crown-6-ether yields a low stiffness hydrogel. By cyclic treatment of the hydrogel with K+-ions and 18-crown-6-ether, it is reversibly cycled between high and low stiffness states. The second system involves a photo-responsive hydrogel that reveals light-induced switchable stiffness functions. The polyacrylamide chains are cooperatively crosslinked by glucosamine-boronate esters and duplex nucleic acid bridges stabilized by trans-azobenzene intercalator units. The resulting hydrogel reveals high stiffness. Photoisomerization of the trans-azobenzene units to the cis-azobenzene states results in the separation of the duplex nucleic acid bridges and the formation of a low stiffness hydrogel. The control over the stiffness properties of the hydrogel matrices by means of K+-ions/crown ether or photoisomerizable trans-azobenzene/cis-azobenzene units is used to develop shape-memory, self-healing, and controlled drug-release hydrogel materials.
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