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ArticleAdvanced healthcare materials2021

Electrically Conductive and 3D-Printable Oxidized Alginate-Gelatin Polypyrrole:PSS Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering.

Thomas Distler, Christian Polley, Fukun Shi, Dominik Schneidereit, Mark D Ashton, Oliver Friedrich, Jürgen F Kolb, John G Hardy, Rainer Detsch, Hermann Seitz and 1 more

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Article in Advanced healthcare materials, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Thomas DistlerInstitute of Biomaterials, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, 91058, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0319-3763
Christian PolleyChair of Microfluidics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rostock, Rostock, 18059, Germany.
Fukun ShiLeibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Greifswald, 17489, Germany.
Dominik SchneidereitInstitute of Medical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Erlangen, 91052, Germany.
Mark D AshtonDepartment of Chemistry, Faraday Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 4YB, UK.
Oliver FriedrichInstitute of Medical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Erlangen, 91052, Germany.
Jürgen F KolbLeibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Greifswald, 17489, Germany.
John G HardyDepartment of Chemistry, Faraday Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 4YB, UK.
Rainer DetschInstitute of Biomaterials, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, 91058, Germany.
Hermann SeitzChair of Microfluidics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rostock, Rostock, 18059, Germany.
Aldo R BoccacciniInstitute of Biomaterials, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, 91058, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7377-2955
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DELancaster University · GBLeibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology · DEUniversity of Rostock · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electroactive hydrogels can be used to influence cell response and maturation by electrical stimulation. However, hydrogel formulations which are 3D printable, electroactive, cytocompatible, and allow cell adhesion, remain a challenge in the design of such stimuli-responsive biomaterials for tissue engineering. Here, a combination of pyrrole with a high gelatin-content oxidized alginate-gelatin (ADA-GEL) hydrogel is reported, offering 3D-printability of hydrogel precursors to prepare cytocompatible and electrically conductive hydrogel scaffolds. By oxidation of pyrrole, electroactive polypyrrole:polystyrenesulfonate (PPy:PSS) is synthesized inside the ADA-GEL matrix. The hydrogels are assessed regarding their electrical/mechanical properties, 3D-printability, and cytocompatibility. It is possible to prepare open-porous scaffolds via bioplotting which are electrically conductive and have a higher cell seeding efficiency in scaffold depth in comparison to flat 2D hydrogels, which is confirmed via multiphoton fluorescence microscopy. The formation of an interpenetrating polypyrrole matrix in the hydrogel matrix increases the conductivity and stiffness of the hydrogels, maintaining the capacity of the gels to promote cell adhesion and proliferation. The results demonstrate that a 3D-printable ADA-GEL can be rendered conductive (ADA-GEL-PPy:PSS), and that such hydrogel formulations have promise for cell therapies, in vitro cell culture, and electrical-stimulation assisted tissue engineering.

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HydrogelsTissue EngineeringAlginatesGelatinPolymersPyrrolesTissue ScaffoldsAlginatesGelatinHydrogelsPolymerspolypyrrolePyrroles3D-printingbiomaterialselectrically conductive hydrogelsoxidized alginatepolypyrroletissue engineering

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PMID33711199
PMCPMC11469227
OpenAlexW3134046948

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