Exploring maleimide-anchored halloysites as nanophotoinitiators for surface-initiated photografting strategies.

Yelong LuHongchi ZhaoXinrong HuangDi HuYonggang WuXinwu BaHailei Zhang

Published in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2022)

Maleimide-functionalized HNTs (HNTs-I) were prepared and explored as a nanophotoinitiator. Vinyl monomers can be grafted onto the nanotubes following a spatially controllable, metal-free and non-contact photoinitiated approach. The obtained HNTs-I were further used in a 3D printing system to fabricate hydrogels with designed configurations.

Keyphrases

drug delivery
hyaluronic acid
drug release
molecularly imprinted
tissue engineering
high resolution