Supramolecular nanoarchitectonics of phenolic-based nanofiller for controlled diffusion of versatile drugs in hydrogels

Jiezhou Pan, Haotian Liao, Guidong Gong, Yunxiang He, Qin Wang, Lang Qin, Yaoyao Zhang, Hirotaka Ejima, Blaise L. Tardy, Joseph J. Richardson, Jiaojiao Shang, Orlando J. Rojas, Yong Zeng, Junling Guo

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    Abstract

    Drug-dependent design of hydrogels is currently required for engineering the controlled release of therapeutics, which is a major contributor to the technical challenges relating to the clinical translation of hydrogel-drug systems. Herein, by integrating supramolecular phenolic-based nanofillers (SPFs) into hydrogel microstructures we developed a facile strategy to endow a range of clinically relevant hydrogels with controlled release properties for diverse therapeutic agents. The assembly of multiscale SPF aggregates leads to tunable mesh size and multiple dynamic interactions between SPF aggregates and drugs, which relaxes the available choices of drugs and hydrogels. This simple approach allowed for the controlled release of 12 representative drugs evaluated with 8 commonly used hydrogels. Moreover, the anesthetic drug lidocaine was loaded into SPF-integrated alginate hydrogel and demonstrated sustained release for 14 days in vivo, validating the potential for long-term anesthesia in patients.

    Original languageBritish English
    Pages (from-to)433-446
    Number of pages14
    JournalJournal of Controlled Release
    Volume360
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Aug 2023

    Keywords

    • Diffusion kinetics
    • Drug controlled release
    • Dynamic interactions
    • Hydrogel
    • Metal-phenolic nanofiller

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