Fan Yang, Yunlu Chen, Wentao Zhang, Shaochun Gu, Zhenjie Liu, Maohu Chen, Leidan Chen, Feng Chen, Huicong Zhang, Yude Ding, Yanshan Liu, Jinyi Chen, Linhong Wang
Hyaluronic acid-based hydrogels have been broadly used in medical applications due to their remarkable properties such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, super hydroscopicity, non-immunogenic effect, etc. However, the inherent weak and hydrophilic polysaccharide structure of pure hyaluronic acid (HA) hydrogels has limited their potential use in muco-adhesiveness, wound dressing, and 3D printing. In this research, we developed in-situ forming of catechol-modified HA hydrogels with improved mechanical properties involving blue-light curing crosslinking reaction...
May 8, 2024: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules