A simple strategy was developed to prepare a tough, self-healing, antibacterial and moldable hydrogel by introducing the natural polyphenolic compound tannic acid(TA) as a cross-linking center for hydrogen bonds. Poly...A simple strategy was developed to prepare a tough, self-healing, antibacterial and moldable hydrogel by introducing the natural polyphenolic compound tannic acid(TA) as a cross-linking center for hydrogen bonds. Polyvinyl alcohol(PVA)-TA hydrogel was prepared by physical mixing using PVA as a main component and TA as a cross-linker. There were two types of physical cross linking bonds in the PVA-TA hydrogel network, which were weaker hydrogen bonds between PVA molecular chains and stronger hydrogen bonds between PVA and TA molecules. The mechanical properties and self-healing ability could be adjusted by changing the contents of PVA and TA. The hydrogel possessed not only high mechanical strength(305 kPa tensile strength and 864 kPa compressive strength), moldability and excellent self-healing properties(95% selfhealing efficiency) but also good antibacterial abilities against S. aureus and E. coli. In addition, after soaking the dried hydrogel in 90 ℃ deionized water for 4 h, they could also regain their self-healing ability to a certain extent. The hydrogels have potential applications in the biomedical fields.展开更多
基金Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51773161,51303145,51373130,and 21975057)the Special Project of Technological Innovation of Hubei Province(No.2019ABA115)
文摘A simple strategy was developed to prepare a tough, self-healing, antibacterial and moldable hydrogel by introducing the natural polyphenolic compound tannic acid(TA) as a cross-linking center for hydrogen bonds. Polyvinyl alcohol(PVA)-TA hydrogel was prepared by physical mixing using PVA as a main component and TA as a cross-linker. There were two types of physical cross linking bonds in the PVA-TA hydrogel network, which were weaker hydrogen bonds between PVA molecular chains and stronger hydrogen bonds between PVA and TA molecules. The mechanical properties and self-healing ability could be adjusted by changing the contents of PVA and TA. The hydrogel possessed not only high mechanical strength(305 kPa tensile strength and 864 kPa compressive strength), moldability and excellent self-healing properties(95% selfhealing efficiency) but also good antibacterial abilities against S. aureus and E. coli. In addition, after soaking the dried hydrogel in 90 ℃ deionized water for 4 h, they could also regain their self-healing ability to a certain extent. The hydrogels have potential applications in the biomedical fields.
