高强度聚乙烯醇水凝胶微球的制备

以三氯甲烷/丙酮为凝固液, 用高压静电技术制备了高强度、物理交联的聚乙烯醇(PVA)水凝胶微球. 研究了凝固液组成、PVA溶液浓度、温度和湿度、电场强度、进样速度及微球冷冻次数等对PVA微球的形貌、粒径和强度的影响. 结果表明, 采用常压水蒸气控制PVA溶液温度与湿度的高压静电技术, 可克服高浓度PVA溶液在强电场下出现微丝现象, 形成的水凝胶微球具有强度高、粒径在一定范围内可控的特点.     

微凝胶胶体晶体研究进展

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM)微凝胶粒子是一种软的胶体粒子.和单分散的SiO_2、PS、PMMA等硬的胶体粒子一样,单分散的PNIPAM微凝胶粒子也可以自组装成为高度有序的胶体晶体.微凝胶粒子软物质的特性及其对外部刺激的响应性赋予其不同于硬球的组装行为.微凝胶胶体晶体的高度有序结构及其刺激响应性使其在诸多领域有重要用途.本文分别介绍了三维及二维微凝胶胶体晶体组装的研究进展,并对已开发的基于微凝胶胶体晶体的应用进行了总结.     

糖超分子水凝胶在组织工程领域的研究进展

组织工程的一般策略是使用生物支架作为人工基质替代天然细胞外基质(ECM)支持细胞的生存和各项功能,从而形成新的组织.作为一类重要的生物大分子,糖质(glycan)是ECM的主要组分,其所承载的基质和信息功能使其成为一种极有潜力的制备组织工程支架的原材料.与此同时,基于可逆非共价相互作用的水凝胶,因其可以实现对水凝胶时空结构的精确操纵,从而模拟细胞所需的生存环境,促进组织的再生修复,近年来得到了重视和研究.本文从模拟ECM的结构和功能切入,将糖质功能与非共价作用结合起来,介绍多种糖动态超分子水凝胶的设计思路和构筑原理,讨论其在组织工程应用中需要实现的关键性能,并对其在该领域的发展趋势进行展望.     

可注射水凝胶的制备与应用

可注射水凝胶在再生医学和药物控释等方面有着广泛的用途,是近年来生物医用材料领域新的研究方向.本文综述了近年来人们在可注射水凝胶制备和应用方面的研究进展,最后展望了其发展前景.     

组织工程用水凝胶材料

综述了目前用于组织工程支架材料的水凝胶,包括胶原和明胶、透明质酸盐、海藻酸盐,琼脂糖和壳聚糖等天然水凝胶,聚丙烯酸及其衍生物、聚氧化乙烯及其衍生共聚物、聚乙烯醇、聚磷腈和合成多肽等合成水凝胶,并介绍了可注射性组织工程水凝胶。     

导尿管表面具有抗菌功能的层层组装微凝胶膜

以化学交联的聚烯丙基胺盐酸盐拟葡聚糖微凝胶和透明质酸为构筑基元,在导尿管表面层层组装构筑了厚度小于500 nm可控释放抗菌药物的聚合物微凝胶膜。 广谱抗菌药物头孢曲松钠通过扩散吸附的方法在2 min内快速负载到聚合物微凝胶膜中,并且在生理盐水中可控释放时间达3 h。 抗菌实验表明,组装有层层组装微凝胶膜并负载广谱抗菌药物的导尿管具有令人满意的抗菌效果,避免感染的发生。     

手性水凝胶的制备与调控及其应用

手性水凝胶是新近涌现的一个研究领域,以其独特的手性响应性,可逆的吸收膨胀性能,在手性识别、手性分离、药物控制释放和微流控器件等方面均具有广泛的应用前景.因此,手性水凝胶已经成为近些年来材料科学、化学、生物医学等领域的研究热点,如何制备手性响应性好、形成过程可控、结构规整的水凝胶,并加以开发应用成为了研究中的重点.本文概述了手性水凝胶的制备方法,自组装机理,以及目前的应用状况,并展望了其未来的发展趋势.     

聚合物微球交联水凝胶研究进展

作为一类与人体软组织结构最为相似的材料,高分子水凝胶在医药、食品、农林、化妆品等领域应用广泛。其中,聚合物微球交联水凝胶在承受外力时聚合物可以通过链滑移或变形有效地耗散外界应力,赋予了水凝胶优异的强度和韧性,备受国内外学者关注。本文主要介绍了聚合物微球交联水凝胶、嵌段共聚物胶束交联水凝胶以及疏水缔合水凝胶的合成方法,归纳了其在传感器、组织工程以及药物释放等领域中的应用进展,对其增韧机理及应用前景进行分析,并展望了该领域的研究趋势,为可构筑高性能水凝胶提供依据。     

壳聚糖水凝胶微球的制备与溶胀性能

采用三聚磷酸钠(TPP)和六偏磷酸钠(SHMP)为复合交联剂,制备了离子交联网络结构的壳聚糖水凝胶微球。分析讨论了交联剂质量配比、pH以及离子强度等对壳聚糖微球溶胀性能的影响。结果表明:使用复合交联剂制备的微球的溶胀度比单独使用TPP或SHMP的分别低62.4%和41.3%,交联效率得到明显提高;当m(TPP)∶m(SHMP)=3∶5,交联剂pH=5时,制备的微球交联程度最好,结构最密实;在pH=1.2的缓冲溶液中,溶胀度可达到357%,而且凝胶没有任何破碎。微球具有较好的离子强度和pH敏感性,在酸性介质中有较高的溶胀度。     

溶液聚合制备微凝胶

溶液聚合制备微凝胶一般是在极稀溶液中进行,为突破这一限制,研究者们进行了多方面的尝试。本文主要从小分子单体溶液聚合、大分子单体溶液聚合及聚合物溶液交联三方面概括介绍了近年来溶液聚合制备微凝胶的研究状况,展望了溶液聚合制备微凝胶的研究发展前景。     

光聚合水凝胶及其在组织工程中的应用

水凝胶是一种亲水性聚合物网络,可以溶胀大量水,其物理性质接近软组织.光聚合与传统的聚合方法相比,具有反应速率快、反应条件缓和、反应放热低等特点.因此,光聚合水凝胶广泛应用于生物医学领域.本文介绍了光聚合水凝胶材料,并详细论述了光聚合水凝胶在药物释放体系、组织工程支架材料、细胞受控生长、细胞微囊化和可注射水凝胶等方面的应用.可以预见光聚合水凝胶作为生物材料在组织工程及再生医学领域中具有良好的应用前景.     

Injectable Hydrogels for Cardiac Tissue Engineering

In light of the limited efficacy of current treatments for cardiac regeneration, tissue engineering approaches have been explored for their potential to provide mechanical support to injured cardiac tissues, deliver cardio‐protective molecules, and improve cell‐based therapeutic techniques. Injectable hydrogels are a particularly appealing system as they hold promise as a minimally invasive therapeutic approach. Moreover, injectable acellular alginate‐based hydrogels have been tested clinically in patients with myocardial infarction (MI) and show preservation of the left ventricular (LV) indices and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). This review provides an overview of recent developments that have occurred in the design and engineering of various injectable hydrogel systems for cardiac tissue engineering efforts, including a comparison of natural versus synthetic systems with emphasis on the ideal characteristics for biomimetic cardiac materials.     

Advances in Mechanical Properties of Hydrogels for Cartilage Tissue Defect Repair

Numerous factors, such as degeneration and accidents, frequently cause cartilage deterioration. Owing to the absence of blood vessels and nerves in cartilage tissue, the ability of cartilage tissue to heal itself after an injury is relatively low. Hydrogels are beneficial for cartilage tissue engineering owing to their cartilage-like structure and advantageous properties. Due to the disruption of its mechanical structure, the bearing capacity and shock absorption of cartilage are diminished. The tissue should possess excellent mechanical properties to ensure the efficacy of cartilage tissue repair. This paper discusses the application of hydrogels in the fields of cartilage repair, the mechanical properties of hydrogels used for cartilage repair, and the materials used for hydrogels in cartilage tissue engineering. In addition, the challenges faced by hydrogels and future research directions are discussed.     

Characterization of Poly(vinyl alcohol)/Chitosan Hydrogels as Vascular Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

In this study, PVA/Chitosan hydrogels were fabricated by freeze/thaw cycles and further crosslinking with a KOH/Na₂SO₄ coagulation bath and the effect of freeze/thaw cycle number on cell behaviour was evaluated. The surface of the hydrogels were further modified with Collagen type I adsorption and seeded with bovine aortic vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cells. Increasing the number of freeze/thaw cycles resulted in a marked change in surface morphology, hydrophilicity and protein adsorption. Collagen coating caused an increase in initial attachment and proliferation. We concluded that hydrogels that have undergone 3 freeze/thaw cycles were optimum for cell attachment both in the presence and the absence of coating.     

壳聚糖基智能水凝胶的研究进展

壳聚糖是一种天然高分子,含有氨基和羟基等特征基团;水凝胶是一种高分子交联网络体系,具有亲水性,在水中能够溶胀并保持大量水分而不溶解;“智能化”是自发地对外界环境刺激产生响应的一种特性.壳聚糖基智能水凝胶具有良好的生物相容性和可降解性,正倍受广大研究学者的关注.文章综述了近年来关于pH敏感型、温度敏感型以及pH/温度双重敏感型壳聚糖基智能水凝胶的研究概况,介绍了壳聚糖基水凝胶在医学领域如组织工程、药物释放方面的应用并对其未来的发展方向进行了探讨.     

仿贻贝水凝胶在组织愈合中的应用研究

手术线缝合和订皮钉固定是外科手术中修复组织损伤的常规方法,但是对于相对脆弱的软组织,使用组织粘合剂是代替常规组织修复的重要方法之一.尽管合成的组织粘合剂已经得到广泛应用,但是仍然存在一些缺点,例如湿润环境中粘合性差和潜在毒性等.纤维蛋白胶具有良好的止血性能,但是存在拉伸性和粘附性差、价格昂贵等缺点.仿生粘合剂作为组织粘附剂、止血剂或密封剂在临床手术中应用广泛.然而,在组织创伤的修复应用中,发展耐水粘附、具有生物相容性,多功能一体化的医用粘合剂是近年来研究的热点和难点.自从Messersmith课题组报道了受贻贝启发的多功能聚多巴胺涂层以来,含有酚羟基的材料由于其抗氧化、抗菌消炎等功效,被广泛地应用于医学、食品、化妆品和水处理等领域.仿贻贝水凝胶具有优异的组织粘附性、止血抑菌性、生物安全性和可塑性,是理想的医用粘合剂材料.概述了多酚-合成高分子水凝胶、多酚-生物大分子水凝胶、多酚-无机纳米材料复合水凝胶以及聚多巴胺纳米颗粒复合水凝胶在组织粘附、止血抑菌等方面的研究进展和在组织愈合中的应用探索.总结了多酚水凝胶作为医用组织粘附剂、止血剂、密封剂仍需解决的关键问题,并对此领域的发展趋势进行了...     

聚L-谷氨酸可注射水凝胶的制备及性能

通过活化改性聚L-谷氨酸（PLGA）制备酰肼化PLGA（PLGA-ADH）和3-氨基-1,2-丙二醇改性的PLGA（PLGA-OH）,PLGA-OH经高碘酸钠氧化制得醛基化PLGA（PLGA-CHO）,以PLGA-ADH和PLGA-CHO为前驱体,通过席夫碱交联反应构建了PLGA可注射水凝胶.研究了酰肼化和醛基化改性前后PLGA的结构变化,考察了固含量对水凝胶成胶时间、溶胀行为、机械性能、体外降解性能、药物释放行为及微观形貌等的影响,并进行了初步的细胞培养实验及裸鼠皮下注射成胶实验.结果表明,该PLGA可注射水凝胶在组织工程领域具有良好的应用前景.     

Self‐Healing Supramolecular Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications

Self‐healing supramolecular hydrogels have emerged as a novel class of biomaterials that combine hydrogels with supramolecular chemistry to develop highly functional biomaterials with advantages including native tissue mimicry, biocompatibility, and injectability. These properties are endowed by the reversibly cross‐linked polymer network of the hydrogel. These hydrogels have great potential for realizing yet to be clinically translated tissue engineering therapies. This review presents methods of self‐healing supramolecular hydrogel formation and their uses in tissue engineering as well as future perspectives.     

Polypyrrole/Alginate Hybrid Hydrogels: Electrically Conductive and Soft Biomaterials for Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Culture and Potential Neural Tissue Engineering Applications

Electrically conductive biomaterials that can efficiently deliver electrical signals to cells or improve electrical communication among cells have received considerable attention for potential tissue engineering applications. Conductive hydrogels are desirable particularly for neural applications, as they can provide electrical signals and soft microenvironments that can mimic native nerve tissues. In this study, conductive and soft polypyrrole/alginate (PPy/Alg) hydrogels are developed by chemically polymerizing PPy within ionically cross‐linked alginate hydrogel networks. The synthesized hydrogels exhibit a Young's modulus of 20–200 kPa. Electrical conductance of the PPy/Alg hydrogels could be enhanced by more than one order of magnitude compared to that of pristine alginate hydrogels. In vitro studies with human bone marrow‐derived mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) reveal that cell adhesion and growth are promoted on the PPy/Alg hydrogels. Additionally, the PPy/Alg hydrogels support and greatly enhance the expression of neural differentiation markers (i.e., Tuj1 and MAP2) of hMSCs compared to tissue culture plate controls. Subcutaneous implantation of the hydrogels for eight weeks induces mild inflammatory reactions. These soft and conductive hydrogels will serve as a useful platform to study the effects of electrical and mechanical signals on stem cells and/or neural cells and to develop multifunctional neural tissue engineering scaffolds.