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Gerrits L, Bakker B, Hendriks LD, Engels S, Hammink R, Kouwer PHJ. Tailoring of Physical Properties in Macroporous Poly(isocyanopeptide) Cryogels. Biomacromolecules 2024; 25:3464-3474. [PMID: 38743442 PMCID: PMC11170948 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.4c00086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2024] [Revised: 05/01/2024] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
Abstract
Over the years, synthetic hydrogels have proven remarkably useful as cell culture matrixes to elucidate the role of the extracellular matrix (ECM) on cell behavior. Yet, their lack of interconnected macropores undermines the widespread use of hydrogels in biomedical applications. To overcome this limitation, cryogels, a class of macroporous hydrogels, are rapidly emerging. Here, we introduce a new, highly elastic, and tunable synthetic cryogel, based on poly(isocyanopeptides) (PIC). Introduction of methacrylate groups on PIC facilitated cryopolymerization through free-radical polymerization and afforded cryogels with an interconnected macroporous structure. We investigated which cryogelation parameters can be used to tune the architectural and mechanical properties of the PIC cryogels by systematically altering cryopolymerization temperature, polymer concentration, and polymer molecular weight. We show that for decreasing cryopolymerization temperatures, there is a correlation between cryogel pore size and stiffness. More importantly, we demonstrate that by simply varying the polymer concentration, we can selectively tune the compressive strength of PIC cryogels without affecting their architecture. This unique feature is highly useful for biomedical applications, as it facilitates decoupling of stiffness from other variables such as pore size. As such, PIC cryogels provide an interesting new biomaterial for scientists to unravel the role of the ECM in cellular functions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lotte Gerrits
- Institute
for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Institute
for Chemical Immunology, 6525 GA Nijmegen ,Netherlands
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- Institute
for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Institute
for Chemical Immunology, 6525 GA Nijmegen ,Netherlands
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- Institute
for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Institute
for Chemical Immunology, 6525 GA Nijmegen ,Netherlands
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- Institute
for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Institute
for Chemical Immunology, 6525 GA Nijmegen ,Netherlands
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- Department
of Medical BioSciences,Radboudumc, Geert Grooteplein 26, 6525 GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Division
of Immunotherapy, Oncode Institute, Radboud
University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen ,Netherlands
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- Institute
for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Institute
for Chemical Immunology, 6525 GA Nijmegen ,Netherlands
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Haleem A, Pan JM, Shah A, Hussain H, He WD. A systematic review on new advancement and assessment of emerging polymeric cryogels for environmental sustainability and energy production. Sep Purif Technol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2023.123678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/08/2023]
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Bozbay R, Orakdogen N. Temperature-regulated elasticity and multifunctionality in n-alkyl methacrylate ester-based ternary gels: optimizing adsorption and pH/temperature dual sensitivity. Colloid Polym Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00396-022-04963-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bozbay R, Orakdogen N. Multifunctional poly(methacrylate ester)s-based terpolymer cryogels with basic amino groups: Correlation of elasticity and structural properties with composition. REACT FUNCT POLYM 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2021.105060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Bozbay R, Orakdogen N. Scaling Behavior and Structure–Property Relationships of Multifunctional Ternary‐Hydrogels Based on N‐Alkyl Methacrylate Esters: Property Tunability through Versatile Synthesis. MACROMOL THEOR SIMUL 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/mats.202100068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Rabia Bozbay
- Department of Chemistry, Soft Materials Research Laboratory Istanbul Technical University Maslak Istanbul 34469 Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Soft Materials Research Laboratory Istanbul Technical University Maslak Istanbul 34469 Turkey
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Volkova N, Berillo D. Water Uptake as a Crucial Factor on the Properties of Cryogels of Gelatine Cross-Linked by Dextran Dialdehyde. Gels 2021; 7:159. [PMID: 34698152 PMCID: PMC8544549 DOI: 10.3390/gels7040159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2021] [Revised: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
We investigated the water sorption properties of macroporous cryogels of gelatine (Gel) and dextran dialdehyde (DDA) prepared via cryogelation at 260 K and following the freeze drying processes. Water vapour sorption isotherms for aerogels were studied at 293 K by two independent methods: static-gravimetric and dynamic vapour sorption (DVS) over a water activity range of 0.11-1.0. Experimental data were fitted by use of the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) and Guggenheim-Anderson-de Boer (GAB) models. The BET model (for a water activity range of 0.1 ≤ p/po ≤ 0.5) was used to calculate the sorption parameters of the studied cryogels (the monolayer capacity, surface area and energy of interaction). In comparison with BET, the GAB model can be applied for the whole range of water activities (0.1 ≤ p/po ≤ 0.95). This model gave an almost perfect correlation between the experimental and calculated sorption isotherms using nonlinear least squares fitting (NLSF). Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) was used to confirm the structural differences between various DDA:Gel cryogel compositions. Thermogravimetric analysis and DSC data for aerogels DDA:Gel provided information regarding the bonded water loss, relative remaining water content of the material and the temperature of decomposition. Estimation of the amount of bound water in the cryogels after the freeze drying process as well as after the cycle of treatment of cryogels with high humidity and drying was performed using DSC. The results of the DSC determinations showed that cryogels with higher gelatin content had higher levels of bonded water.
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- Natalia Volkova
- Department of Biotechnology, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, 22 100 Lund, Sweden;
- Department of Solid State Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, 22 100 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Biotechnology, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, 22 100 Lund, Sweden;
- Department of Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Chemistry, Pharmacognosy and Botany School of Pharmacy, Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
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Hamade K, Göktürk I, Bereli N, Türkmen D, Elkak A, Denizli A. A dye-affinity cryogel membrane for malate dehydrogenase purification from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE-POLYMER EDITION 2019; 31:38-52. [DOI: 10.1080/09205063.2019.1670776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- Kamar Hamade
- Laboratoire de Valorisation des Ressources Naturelles et Produits de Santé (LVRNPS), Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology, Lebanese University, Rafic Hariri Campus, Hadath, Lebanon
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- Department of Chemistry, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
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- Laboratoire de Valorisation des Ressources Naturelles et Produits de Santé (LVRNPS), Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology, Lebanese University, Rafic Hariri Campus, Hadath, Lebanon
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- Department of Chemistry, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
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Tanc B, Orakdogen N. Insight into (alkyl)methacrylate-based copolymer/sepiolite nanocomposite cryogels containing amino and sulfonic acid groups: Optimization of network properties and elasticity via cryogelation process. REACT FUNCT POLYM 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2019.03.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Zvukova ND, Klimova TP, Ivanov RV, Ryabev AN, Tsiskarashvili AV, Lozinsky VI. Cryostructuring of Polymeric Systems. 52. Properties, Microstructure and an Example of a Potential Biomedical Use of the Wide-Pore Alginate Cryostructurates. Gels 2019; 5:E25. [PMID: 31075923 PMCID: PMC6630887 DOI: 10.3390/gels5020025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2019] [Accepted: 05/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Wide-pore cryostructurates were prepared via freezing sodium alginate aqueous solutions with subsequent ice sublimation from the frozen samples, followed by their incubation in the ethanol solutions of calcium chloride or sulfuric acid, rinsing, and final drying. Such sequence of operations resulted in the calcium alginate or alginic acid sponges, respectively. The swelling degree of the walls of macropores in such matrices decreased with increasing polymer concentration in the initial solution. The dependence of the degree of swelling on the cryogenic processing temperature had a bell-like character with a maximum for the samples formed at -20 °C. According to 1H NMR spectroscopy, the content of mobile (non-frozen) water in the frozen water-sodium alginate systems also depended on the initial polymer concentration and freezing temperature. The cryostructurates obtained did not lose their integrity in water, saline, in an acidic medium at pH 2 for at least three weeks. Under alkaline conditions at pH 12 the first signs of dissolution of the Ca-alginate sponge arose only after a week of incubation. Microbiological testing of the model depot form of the antibiotics entrapped in the Ca-alginate cryostructurate demonstrated the efficiency of this system as the antibacterial material.
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- Natalia D Zvukova
- A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street, 28, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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- A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street, 28, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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- A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street, 28, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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- A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street, 28, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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- N.N. Priorov National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Priorov Street, 10., 127299 Moscow, Russia.
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- A.N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street, 28, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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Wan B, Li J, Ma F, Yu N, Zhang W, Jiang L, Wei H. Preparation and Properties of Cryogel Based on Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate- co-glycidyl methacrylate). LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:3284-3294. [PMID: 30739457 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b04021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The immobilized metal affinity cryogels based on poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate- co-glycidyl methacrylate) (p(HEMA-GMA)) containing hydroxy and epoxy groups were prepared by free-radical copolymerization under cryogenic condition and then functionalized with iminodiacetic acid and chelated Cu2+, Ca2+, and Fe3+ ions to the p(HEMA-GMA) cryogel. The structures of p(HEMA-GMA) and immobilized metal-affinity cryogels were analyzed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM)-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. SEM results showed that the prepared cryogels had interconnected pores with the size of 30-100 μm. The performance of water swelling into the cryogels was fitted in Fickian diffusion. The adsorption property of cryogels was influenced by the immobilized ionic type, temperature, and adsorbate. The adsorption capacity of immobilized Cu2+ cryogel (p(HEMA)-Cu2+ (0.5 M) cryogel) was the highest in comparison with that of Ca2+ and Fe3+ affinity cryogels under the same condition. The maximum adsorption capacity of p(HEMA)-Cu2+ (0.5 M) cryogel for porcine pancreatic lipase was 150.14 mg/g at a higher temperature of 35 °C, whereas for bovine serum albumin, the maximum adsorption capacity was 154.11 mg/g at a lower temperature of 25 °C. The research of thermodynamics and kinetics indicated that the mechanism of the protein adsorption process corresponded to the Langmuir model and pseudo-second-order model.
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- Binbin Wan
- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering , Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) , Jinan 250353 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering , Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) , Jinan 250353 , P. R. China
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Special Silicone-Containing Materials , Jinan 250014 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering , Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) , Jinan 250353 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering , Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) , Jinan 250353 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering , Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) , Jinan 250353 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering , Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) , Jinan 250353 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering , Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) , Jinan 250353 , P. R. China
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Ussia M, Di Mauro A, Mecca T, Cunsolo F, Nicotra G, Spinella C, Cerruti P, Impellizzeri G, Privitera V, Carroccio SC. ZnO-pHEMA Nanocomposites: An Ecofriendly and Reusable Material for Water Remediation. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2018; 10:40100-40110. [PMID: 30358979 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b13029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The design of new hybrid nanocomposites based on poly(2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate) (pHEMA) graphene oxide (GO) cryosponges, wherein ZnO nanolayers have been deposited to induce photocatalytic properties, is reported here. Atomic layer deposition at low temperature is specifically selected as the deposition technique to stably anchor ZnO molecules to the pendant polymer OH groups. Furthermore, to boost the pHEMA cryogel adsorption capability versus organic dyes, GO is added during the synthetic procedure. The morphology, the crystallinity, and the chemical composition of the samples are deeply investigated by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction analyses, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis. Swelling properties, mechanical performance, and adsorption kinetics models of the hybrid materials are also evaluated. Finally, the adsorption and photocatalytic performance are tested and compared for all of the samples using methylene blue as a dye. Particularly, the adsorption efficiency of ZnO/pHEMA and ZnO/pHEMA-GO nanocomposites, as well as their in situ regeneration via photocatalysis, renders such devices very appealing for advanced wastewater treatment technology.
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- Martina Ussia
- CNR-IMM , Via Santa Sofia 64 , 95123 Catania , Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy , University of Catania , via Santa Sofia 64 , 95123 Catania , Italy
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- CNR-ICB , Via Paolo Gaifami 18 , 95126 Catania , Italy
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- CNR-IMM , Via Santa Sofia 64 , 95123 Catania , Italy
- CNR-IPCB , Via Paolo Gaifami 18 , 95126 Catania , Italy
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