Carbonized Polymer Dot-Tannic Acid Nanoglue: Tissue Reinforcement with Concurrent Fluorescent Tracking, Insulin Delivery, and Reactive Oxygen Species Regulation for Normal and Diabetic Wound Healing.

Nanotizing biosealant components offer a multitude of chemical functionalities for superior adhesion-cohesion, delivering unique properties for comprehensive wound healing that are otherwise impossible to achieve using commercial variants. For the first time, a two-step controlled hydrothermal pyrolysis is reported to nanotize dopamine, phloroglucinol, and glutaraldehyde into carbon dot (CD) to be subsequently converted into carbonized polymer dot (CPD) with gelatin as a co-substrate. Chemical crosslinking of CD with gelatin through Schiff base formation before the second pyrolysis step ensures a complex yet porous polymeric network.

Multifunctional Self-Healing Carbon Dot-Gelatin Bioadhesive: Improved Tissue Adhesion with Simultaneous Drug Delivery, Optical Tracking, and Photoactivated Sterilization.

Bioadhesives with all-inclusive properties for simultaneous strong and robust adhesion, cohesion, tracking, drug delivery, self-sterilization, and nontoxicity are still farfetched. Herein, a carbon dot (CD) is made to infuse each of the above-desired aspects with gelatin, an inexpensive edible protein. The CD derived through controlled hydrothermal pyrolysis of dopamine and terephthaldehyde retained -NH, -OH, -COOH, and, most importantly, -CHO functionality on the CD surface for efficient skin adhesion and cross-linking.

Unique Compatibilized Thermoplastic Elastomer with High Strength and Remarkable Ductility: Effect of Multiple Point Interactions within a Rubber-Plastic Blend.

In the case of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) based on nonpolar polypropylene (PP) and polar rubbers, a small quantity of a third component known as the compatibilizer is added to maximize the compatibility between the incompatible blend components. Generally, one part of the compatibilizer reacts with the nonpolar PP phase and the other part of the compatibilizer reacts with the polar rubber phase, which in turn produces TPEs with useful properties. Till today, there have been no reports in the literature that examine the effect of a compatibilizer that can have multifaceted interactions with the incompatible blend components for the development of TPEs with unique properties.