The relationship between thiol-acrylate photopolymerization kinetics and hydrogel mechanics: An improved model incorporating photobleaching and thiol-Michael addition

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
Hongyuan ZhuMin Lin

Abstract

Biocompatible hydrogels with defined mechanical properties are critical to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Thiol-acrylate photopolymerized hydrogels have attracted special interest for their degradability and cytocompatibility, and for their tunable mechanical properties through controlling factors that affect reaction kinetics (e.g., photopolymerization, stoichiometry, temperature, and solvent choice). In this study, we hypothesized that the mechanical property of these hydrogels can be tuned by photoinitiators via photobleaching and by thiol-Michael addition reactions. To test this hypothesis, a multiscale mathematical model incorporating both photobleaching and thiol-Michael addition reactions was developed and validated. After validating the model, the effects of thiol concentration, light intensity, and pH values on hydrogel mechanics were investigated. Results revealed that hydrogel stiffness (i) was maximized at a light intensity-specific optimal concentration of thiol groups; (ii) increased with decreasing pH when synthesis occurred at low light intensity; and (iii) increased with decreasing light intensity when synthesis occurred at fixed precursor composition. The multiscale model revealed that the latte...Continue Reading

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May 30, 2021·Macromolecular Rapid Communications·Hongyuan ZhuMin Lin
May 7, 2021·Angewandte Chemie·Bérengère AubryJacques Lalevée
Aug 14, 2021·PloS One·Kristof MolnarAngela Jedlovszky-Hajdu
Sep 18, 2021·Biomacromolecules·Marzieh MonfaredMartina H Stenzel

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