Auxetic cardiac patches with tunable mechanical and conductive properties toward treating myocardial infarction
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Journal Article
Abstract
An auxetic conductive cardiac patch (AuxCP) for the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI) is introduced. The auxetic design gives the patch a negative Poisson's ratio, providing it with the ability to conform to the demanding mechanics of the heart. The conductivity allows the patch to interface with electroresponsive tissues such as the heart. Excimer laser microablation is used to micropattern a re‐entrant honeycomb (bow‐tie) design into a chitosan‐polyaniline composite. It is shown that the bow‐tie design can produce patches with a wide range in mechanical strength and anisotropy, which can be tuned to match native heart tissue. Further, the auxetic patches are conductive and cytocompatible with murine neonatal cardiomyocytes in vitro. Ex vivo studies demonstrate that the auxetic patches have no detrimental effect on the electrophysiology of both healthy and MI rat hearts and conform better to native heart movements than unpatterned patches of the same material. Finally, the AuxCP applied in a rat MI model results in no detrimental effect on cardiac function and negligible fibrotic response after two weeks in vivo. This approach represents a versatile and robust platform for cardiac biomaterial design and could therefore lead to a promising treatment for MI.
Date Issued
2018-05-24
Date Acceptance
2018-03-05
Citation
Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 28 (21)
ISSN
1616-301X
Publisher
Wiley
Journal / Book Title
Advanced Functional Materials
Volume
28
Issue
21
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co.
KGaA, Weinheim. This is an open access article under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution
and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
cited.
KGaA, Weinheim. This is an open access article under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution
and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
cited.
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Medical Research Council (MRC)
British Heart Foundation
Wellcome Trust
British Heart Foundation
Kusuma Trust UK
Grant Number
PIIF-GA-2012-328897
MR/L012677/1
MR/K026682/1
RM/13/1/30157
098411/Z/12/Z
RM/17/1/33377
MMRE_P74027
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Technology
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Chemistry, Physical
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Physics, Applied
Physics, Condensed Matter
Chemistry
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Materials Science
Physics
auxetic materials
biomaterials
cardiac patches
doped-conjugated polymers
re-entrant honeycombs
POISSONS RATIO
BIOMATERIALS
SCAFFOLD
HONEYCOMBS
HEART
03 Chemical Sciences
09 Engineering
02 Physical Sciences
Materials
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
1800618
Date Publish Online
2018-04-10