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Superelastic and pH-Responsive Degradable Dendrimer Cryogels Prepared by Cryo-Aza-Michael Addition Reaction
Scientific Reports
  • Juan Wang
  • Hu Yang, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

Dendrimers exhibit super atomistic features by virtue of their well-defined discrete quantized nanoscale structures. Here, we show that hyperbranched amine-terminated polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer G4.0 reacts with linear polyethylene glycol (PEG) diacrylate (575 g/mol) via the aza-Michael addition reaction at a subzero temperature (-20 °C), namely cryo-aza-Michael addition, to form a macroporous superelastic network, i.e., dendrimer cryogel. Dendrimer cryogels exhibit biologically relevant Young's modulus, high compression elasticity and super resilience at ambient temperature. Furthermore, the dendrimer cryogels exhibit excellent rebound performance and do not show significant stress relaxation under cyclic deformation over a wide temperature range (-80 to 100 °C). The obtained dendrimer cryogels are stable at acidic pH but degrade quickly at physiological pH through self-triggered degradation. Taken together, dendrimer cryogels represent a new class of scaffolds with properties suitable for biomedical applications.

Department(s)
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Comments

This work was supported, in part, by the National Institutes of Health (R01EY024072).

Keywords and Phrases
  • dendrimer,
  • macrogol,
  • PAMAM Starburst,
  • poly(ethylene glycol)diacrylate,
  • polyamidoamine,
  • polyamine, chemistry,
  • cryogel,
  • drug therapy,
  • elasticity,
  • human,
  • porosity,
  • tissue engineering, Cryogels,
  • Dendrimers,
  • Elasticity,
  • Humans,
  • Polyamines,
  • Polyethylene Glycols,
  • Porosity,
  • Tissue Engineering
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2018 The Authors, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
12-1-2018
Publication Date
01 Dec 2018
PubMed ID
29740011
Citation Information
Juan Wang and Hu Yang. "Superelastic and pH-Responsive Degradable Dendrimer Cryogels Prepared by Cryo-Aza-Michael Addition Reaction" Scientific Reports Vol. 8 Iss. 1 (2018) ISSN: 2045-2322
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hu-yang/65/