Abstract
Through a nature-inspired layer-by-layer assembly process, we developed a unique multifunctional tissue scaffold that consists of porous polyurethane substrate and nanoscale chitosan/graphene oxide hybrid coating. Alternative layers of drug-laden chitosan and graphene oxide nanosheets were held together through strong electrostatic interaction, giving rise to a robust multilayer architecture with control over structural element orientation and chemical composition at nanoscale. Combined pH-controlled co-delivery of multiple therapeutic agents and photothermal therapy has been achieved by our scaffold system. The new platform technology can be generalized to produce other tissue scaffold systems and may enable potential multimodal therapeutic applications such as bone cancer managements.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 27269-27278 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 30 |
| Early online date | 19 Jun 2019 |
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| Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 31 Jul 2019 |
Funding
The authors of this work would like to thank the fundingsupport from the Engineering and Physical Science ResearchCouncil (EPSRC, EP/P00394X/1 and EP/P010059/1), Na-tional Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 51673131),National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFA0201703/2016YFA0201700), and China Scholar-ship Council (201606240059)
Keywords
- hybrid coating
- tissue scaffold
- multimodal therapy
- co-drug delivery
- photothermal therapy