Kortenbrede, Lana
(2024).
Fast room-temperature curing polyurethane-based hydrogels for medical applications.
PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
This is the latest version of this item.
All available versions of this item
- Fast room-temperature curing polyurethane-based hydrogels for medical applications. (deposited 07 May 2025 13:34) [Currently Displayed]
![]() |
PDF
Dissertation_LanaKortenbrede-Final.pdf - Accepted Version Bereitstellung unter der CC-Lizenz: Creative Commons Attribution. Download (8MB) |
Abstract
Postoperative adhesions represent a frequent complication after intra-abdominal surgeries and are associated with long-term side effects such as chronic pain, infertility in women, and life-threatening intestinal obstructions. Available adhesion prophylaxis products often show limitations in applicability or efficacy. In this dissertation, hydrogels that cure rapidly (<60 sec) at room temperature were developed, fulfilling the requirements for such a sensitive application. Their application is enabled by spraying as a two-component (2K) system. A hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) terminated prepolymer (prepolymer-1) was selected as the starting material to identify a suitable crosslinking reaction for producing rapidly curing 2K hydrogels. Corresponding synthetic modifications were carried out to investigate four different crosslinking technologies with respect to their reaction kinetics. The isocyanate-amine reaction, forming urea, was identified as a suitable crosslinking technology. Various hydrogel formulations were optimized in terms of viscosity, adhesion behavior, biocompatibility and biodegradability. The latter required the implementation of biodegradable groups into the polyol backbone. Using a design of experiments (DoE), formulation parameters were varied to establish a structure-property relationship with important analytical target variables. This allowed the identification of an optimized formulation, which was further characterized regarding the curing reaction, resulting viscoelastic properties, hydrolytic degradation and mechanical properties such as tensile strength, compression behavior, molecular weight between crosslinks, and resulting mesh size. Biochemical properties such as cytotoxicity, cell adhesion, invasion and migration were investigated as measurable parameters to determine the effectiveness as an adhesion barrier. The formulation was adapted for sprayability with CO2 and investigated in an in vivo efficacy model, revealing a lack of barrier effect and a suspected lack of biocompatibility. The latter was confirmed in a further study. Subsequent cytotoxicity investigations reflected this effect in gel extracts from day 8 onwards, consisting predominantly of degradation products, as well as in the hydrogels on day 14. Non-biodegradable systems based on prepolymer-1 displayed no cytotoxic effect, supporting the hypothesis that the observed toxicity was caused by the degradation products. Therefore, the hydrogels presented here are initially limited to the use of non-biodegradable systems.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
Translated abstract: |
|
||||||||
Creators: |
|
||||||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-782023 | ||||||||
Date: | 2024 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Chemistry > Institute of Organic Chemistry | ||||||||
Subjects: | Chemistry and allied sciences Medical sciences Medicine |
||||||||
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
|
||||||||
Date of oral exam: | 6 September 2024 | ||||||||
Referee: |
|
||||||||
Open access funding: | BMBF, Förderkennzeichen: 13XP5107 | ||||||||
Projects: | Hydrogele für die minimalinvasive Chirurgie | ||||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/78202 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
Export
Actions (login required)
![]() |
View Item |