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ArticleMacromolecular rapid communications2020

Hydrogel Synthesis and Stabilization via Tetrazine Click-Induced Secondary Interactions.

Samantha E Holt, Amanda Rakoski, Faraz Jivan, Lisa M Pérez, Daniel L Alge

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Article in Macromolecular rapid communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samantha E HoltDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-3120, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7126-3209
Amanda RakoskiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-3120, USA.
Faraz JivanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-3120, USA.
Lisa M PérezHigh Performance Research Computing, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-3361, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1176-1027
Daniel L AlgeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-3120, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8129-2871
Texas A&M University · US

Funding

Osteoinductive Microgel-Based Scaffolds for hMSC DeliveryR21AR071625 · NIAMS · TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION · PI ALGE, DANIEL · 2017 to 2018
$347k
NIAMS NIH HHS R21 AR071625
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The discovery of tetrazine click-induced secondary interactions is reported as a promising new tool for polymeric biomaterial synthesis. This phenomenon is first demonstrated as a tool for poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogel assembly via purely non-covalent interactions and is shown to yield robust gels with storage moduli one to two orders of magnitude higher than other non-covalent crosslinking methods. In addition, tetrazine click-induced secondary interactions also enhance the properties of covalently crosslinked hydrogels. A head-to-head comparison of PEG hydrogels crosslinked with tetrazine-norbornene and thiol-norbornene click chemistry reveals an approximately sixfold increase in storage modulus and unprecedented resistance to hydrolytic degradation in tetrazine click-crosslinked gels without substantial differences in gel fraction. Molecular dynamic simulations attribute these differences to the presence of secondary interactions between the tetrazine-norbornene cycloaddition products, which are absent in the thiol-norbornene crosslinked gels.

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Biocompatible MaterialsHydrogelsClick ChemistryPolyethylene GlycolsSulfhydryl CompoundsBiocompatible MaterialsHydrogelsPolyethylene GlycolsSulfhydryl Compoundshydrogelsnon-covalent gelationsupramolecular chemistrytetrazine click chemistry

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PMID32515861
PMCPMC8085762
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