A modular one-component supramolecular transient network in water, based on poly(ethylene glycol) and end-capped with four-fold hydrogen bonding units, is reported. Due to its nonlinear structural formation, this system allows active proteins to be added to the hydrogel during formation. Once implanted in vivo it releases the protein by erosion of both the protein and polymer via dissolution.
Nako Nakatsuka, Nicholas Spencer
Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Andreas Scheck, Jaume Bonet Martinez, Fabian Sesterhenn, Stéphane Rosset, Che Yang, Sarah Wehrle, Freyr Sverrisson, Sabrina Susan Vollers, Mélanie Evelyne Villard, Anne Marie-Thérèse Suzanne Billet, Roxanne Marine Lourman, Karen Schriever