Highly Stretchable and Conductive Self-Healing Hydrogels for Temperature and Strain Sensing and Chronic Wound Treatment

• Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 12; no. 37; pp. 40990 - 40999
• Main Authors: Zhang, Jieyu, Wu, Can, Xu, Yuanyuan, Chen, Jiali, Ning, Ning, Yang, Zeyu, Guo, Yi, Hu, Xuefeng, Wang, Yunbing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 16.09.2020
• Subjects: Animals; Anti-Bacterial Agents - chemical synthesis; Anti-Bacterial Agents - chemistry; Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology; antibacterial properties; biocompatibility; Biocompatible Materials - chemical synthesis; Biocompatible Materials - chemistry; Biocompatible Materials - pharmacology; Biological and Medical Applications of Materials and Interfaces; chitosan; cost effectiveness; crosslinking; Electric Conductivity; Electric Stimulation; electrical treatment; Food and Drug Administration; hydrogels; Hydrogels - chemical synthesis; Hydrogels - chemistry; Hydrogels - pharmacology; hydrogen; Male; Microbial Sensitivity Tests; Particle Size; Pseudomonas aeruginosa - drug effects; pyrroles; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Staphylococcus aureus - drug effects; Surface Properties; Temperature; Wound Healing - drug effects; wound treatment; conductive hydrogel; biosensor; flexible bioelectronics; self-healing; chronic wound

Flexible bioelectronics for biomedical applications requires a stretchable, conductive, self-healable, and biocompatible material that can be obtained by cost-effective chemicals and strategies. Herein, we synthesized polypyrrole or Zn-functionalized chitosan molecules, which are cross-linked with p...