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SUBMITTER: Dong Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5242094 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dong Yizhou Y Wang Weiheng W Veiseh Omid O Appel Eric A EA Xue Kun K Webber Matthew J MJ Tang Benjamin C BC Yang Xi-Wen XW Weir Gordon C GC Langer Robert R Anderson Daniel G DG
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20160817 34
Injectable hydrogels have been widely used for a number of biomedical applications. Here, we report a new strategy to form an injectable and glucose-responsive hydrogel using the boronic acid-glucose complexation. The ratio of boronic acid and glucose functional groups is critical for hydrogel formation. In our system, polymers with 10-60% boronic acid, with the balance being glucose-modified, are favorable to form hydrogels. These hydrogels are shear-thinning and self-healing, recovering from s ...[more]