Multifunctional Therapeutic Nanodiamond Hydrogels for Infected-Wound Healing and Cancer Therapy.

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, People's Republic of China.

Published: February 2024

Wound infection and tumor recurrence are the two main threats to cancer patients after surgery. Although researchers have developed new treatment systems to address the two significant challenges simultaneously, the potential side effects of the heavy-metal-ion-based treatment systems still severely limit their widespread application in therapy. In addition, the wounds from tumor removal compared with general operative wounds are more complex. The tumor wounds mainly exhibit more hemorrhage, larger trauma area, greater vulnerability to bacterial infection, and residual tumor cells. Therefore, a multifunctional treatment platform is urgently needed to integrate rapid hemostasis, sterilization, wound healing promotion, and antitumor functions. In this work, nanodiamonds (NDs), a material that has been well proven to have excellent biocompatibility, are added into a solution of acrylic-grafted chitosan (CEC) and oxidized hyaluronic acid (OHA) to construct a multifunctional treatment platform (CEC-OHA-NDs). The hydrogels exhibit rapid hemostasis, a wound-healing-promoting effect, excellent self-healing, and injectable abilities. Moreover, CEC-OHA-NDs can effectively eliminate bacteria and inhibit tumor proliferation by the warm photothermal effect of NDs under tissue-penetrable near-infrared laser irradiation (NIR) without cytotoxicity. Consequently, we adopt a simple and convenient strategy to construct a multifunctional treatment platform using carbon-based nanomaterials with excellent biocompatibility to promote the healing of infected wounds and to inhibit tumor cell proliferation simultaneously.

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