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A method to accelerate the gelation of disulfide-crosslinked hydrogels

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A glutathione-disulfide-ended poly(ethylene glycol) (GSSG-PEG-GSSG) was designed. It is a much more efficient accelerator than glutathione disulfide (GSSG) for the gelation of an 8arm-PEG-SH polymer solution, and the gelation time can be tuned from hours to minutes at the physiological pH and temperature. A mechanism was proposed to explain the different behaviors of the GSSG and GSSG-PEG-GSSG gelation systems. Due to the ever-going thiol-disulfide exchange reaction, the thiol-disulfide hydrogels also showed interesting swelling behavior.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials (MOE), Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Xiaoshan Yan, Xiaotong Yang, Xinming Tong  (童新明) & Yanbin Huang  (黄延宾)

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21004038).

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Yan, X., Yang, X., Tong, X. et al. A method to accelerate the gelation of disulfide-crosslinked hydrogels. Chin J Polym Sci 33, 118–127 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-015-1567-5

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