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  • Self-healing mechanism and bioelectrochemical interface properties of core-shell guanosine-borate hydrogels.

Self-healing mechanism and bioelectrochemical interface properties of core-shell guanosine-borate hydrogels.

Journal of colloid and interface science (2021-02-02)
Hai Wang, Xiao-Qiao Xie, Yu Peng, Jingjing Li, Chun-Sen Liu
ABSTRACT

The self-healing mechanism and bioelectrochemical interface properties of supramolecular gels have been rarely explored. In this context, we propose a constitutive "fibril-reorganization" model to reveal the self-healing mechanism of a series of core-shell structured guanosine-borate (GB) hydrogels and emphasize that interfibrillar interactions at the supramolecular polymer scale (G-quadruplex nanowires) drive the self-healing process of GB hydrogels. Structure-electrochemical sensing performance studies reveal that GB hydrogel nanofibers with relatively strong biomolecular affinity such as -SH modified GB hydrogel (GB-SH) show a high sensitivity of response and low limit of detection for tumour marker alpha-fetoprotein sensing (AFP; 0.076 pg mL-1). Guanosine/ferroceneboronic acid (GB-Fc) hydrogel nanofibers with superior conductivity and redox activity display the widest linear detection range for AFP (0.0005-100 ng mL-1). Structure-property correlations of GB hydrogels provide useful insight for the future design of advanced self-healing materials and electrochemical biosensors.

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