Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages 9002-9009Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b18343
Keywords
chitosan; kappa-carrageenan; hydrogel films; toughness; antiadhesion
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51773179, 51403184]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China
- Thousand Young Talents Program of China
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Designing tough biopolymer-based hydrogels as structural biomaterials has both scientific and practical significances. We report a facile approach to prepare polysaccharide-based hydrogel films with remarkable mechanical performances and antiadhesion property. The hydrogel films with a thickness of 40-60 mu m were prepared by mixing aqueous solutions of kappa-carrageenan (kappa-CG) and protonated chitosan (CS), evaporating the solvent, and then swelling the tasted film in water to achieve the equilibrium state. The obtained kappa-CG/CS gel films with a water content of 48-88 wt % possessed excellent mechanical properties with a breaking stress of 2-6.7 MPa and a breaking strain of 80-120%, superior to the most existing biopolymer-based hydrogels. The extraordinary mechanical properties of gel films obtained over a wide range of mass ratio of kappa-CG to CS should be rooted in the synergistic effect of ionic and hydrogen bonds between the kappa-CG and CS molecules. In addition, the tough gel films showed good self-recovery ability, biocompatibility, and cell antiadhesion property, making them promising as an artificial dura mater and diaphragm materials in the surgery. The design principle by incorporating multiple noncovalent bonds to toughen the biopolymer-based hydrogels should be applicable to other systems toward structural biomaterials with versatile properties.
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