Synthesis and Characterization of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Organo/Hydrogels.

Biomacromolecules

Center of Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences , Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 , China.

Published: September 2019


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Synthetic organogels/hydrogels are attracting growing interests due to their potential applications in biomedical fields, organic electronics, and photovoltaics. Photogelation methods for synthesis of organogels/hydrogels have been shown particularly promising because of the high efficiency and simple synthetic procedures. This study synthesized new biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA)-based organogels/hydrogels via UV photo-cross-linking using unsaturated PHA copolymer poly[()-3-hydroxyundecanoate--()-3-hydroxy-10-undecenoate] (PHU10U) with polyethylene glycol dithiol (PDT) as a photo-cross-linker. The PHU10U was synthesized by an engineered and characterized via Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and C NMR. With decreasing the molar ratio of PHU10U to PDT, both the swelling ratio and pore size were decreased. Meanwhile, increasing densities of the gel networks resulted in a higher compressive modulus. Cell cytotoxicity studies based on the CCK-8 assay on both the PHU10U precursor and PHU10U/PDT hydrogels showed that the novel PHA-based biodegradables acting as hydrogels possess good biocompatibility.

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