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    Material priority engineered metal-polyphenol networks: mechanism and platform for multifunctionalities

    Year: 2022

    Journal: J. Nanobiotechnol., Volume 20, JUN 3

    Authors: Cheng, Xinxiu; Zhu, Yaxin; Tang, Sicheng; Lu, Ruofei; Zhang, Xiaoqiang; Li, Na; Zan, Xingjie

    Organizations: One Thousand Talents Program; Wenzhou Institute of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences [WIUCASQD2019009, WIUCASQD2021032]

    Keywords: Metal-polyphenol networks; Procyanidin; Tissue engineering; Multifunctionalities; Mechanism

    Engineering the surface of materials with desired multifunctionalities is an effective way to fight against multiple adverse factors during tissue repair process. Recently, metal-polyphenol networks (MPNs) have gained increasing attention because of their rapid and simple deposition process onto various substrates (silicon, quartz, gold and polypropylene sheets, etc.). However, the coating mechanism has not been clarified, and multifunctionalized MPNs remain unexplored. Herein, the flavonoid polyphenol procyanidin (PC) was selected to form PC-MPN coatings with Fe3+, and the effects of different assembly parameters, including pH, molar ratio between PC and Fe3+, and material priority during coating formation, were thoroughly evaluated. We found that the material priority (addition sequence of PC and Fe3+ had a great influence on the thickness of the formed PC-MPNs. Various surface techniques (e.g., ultraviolet- visible spectrophotometry, quartz crystal microbalance, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy) were used to investigate the formation mechanism of PC-MPNs. Then PC-MPNs were further engineered with multifunctionalities (fastening cellular attachment in the early stage, promoting longterm cellular proliferation, antioxidation and antibacterial activity). We believe that these findings could further reveal the coating formation mechanism of MPNs and guide the future design of MPN coatings with multifunctionalities, thereby greatly broadening their application prospects, such as in sensors, environments, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.
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