Issue 47, 2023

An underwater stable and durable gelatin composite hydrogel coating for biomedical applications

Abstract

Developing underwater stable and durable hydrogel coatings with drag-reducing, drug release, and antibacterial properties is essential for lots of biomedical applications. However, most hydrogel coatings cannot meet the requirement of underwater stability and versatility, which severely limits their widespread use. In this work, an underwater stable, durable and substrate-independent gelatin composite hydrogel (GMP) coating is developed through covalent crosslinks, where a silane coupling agent with an unsaturated double bond is grafted onto a substrate of co-deposited polydopamine and polyethylenimine. GMP coating can be easily coated onto various medical device surfaces, such as artificial joints, catheters, tracheal tubes and titanium alloys, showing excellent structural stability and mechanical tunability under extreme conditions of ultrasonic treatment for 1 h (400 W of ultrasonic power) or underwater shearing for 14 days (400 rpm). Besides, friction experiment reveals that GMP coating exhibits good lubrication properties (coefficient of friction < 0.003). The drug-loading and bacterial inhibition ring tests show that the GMP coating has a tunable drug release ability with the final releasing ratios of 70–95% by changing the content of poly (ethylene glycol) diacrylate. This work offers a scalable approach of fabricating bio-functional and stable hydrogel coatings, which can be potentially used in biomedical applications.

Graphical abstract: An underwater stable and durable gelatin composite hydrogel coating for biomedical applications

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Aug 2023
Accepted
06 Nov 2023
First published
07 Nov 2023

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2023,11, 11372-11383

An underwater stable and durable gelatin composite hydrogel coating for biomedical applications

L. Wei, Y. Li, X. Qiu, X. Zhang, X. Song, Y. Zhao, Q. Yu, J. Shao, S. Ge and J. Huang, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2023, 11, 11372 DOI: 10.1039/D3TB01817B

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