PMID- 30462494 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200123 LR - 20201209 IS - 1526-4602 (Electronic) IS - 1525-7797 (Linking) VI - 20 IP - 1 DP - 2019 Jan 14 TI - Lubrication and Wear Protection of Micro-Structured Hydrogels Using Bioinspired Fluids. PG - 326-335 LID - 10.1021/acs.biomac.8b01311 [doi] AB - We report the fabrication and the use of a bioinspired synovial fluid acting as a lubricant fluid and antiwear agent at soft and porous chitosan hydrogel tribopairs. This synthetic synovial fluid is composed of sodium hyaluronate (HA) and a bottle-brush polymer (BB) having a polycationic attachment group and polyzwitterionic pendant chains. The 2.5%(w/w) chitosan hydrogel plugs are organized in a bilayered structure exposing a thin and dense superficial zone (SZ), covering a porous deep zone (DZ), and exhibiting microchannels perpendicularly aligned to the SZ. Using a low-load tribometer, the addition of HA lubricating solution at the hydrogel-hydrogel rubbing contact drastically decreased the coefficient of friction (CoF) from mu = 0.20 +/- 0.01 to 0.04 +/- 0.01 on the DZ configuration and from mu = 0.31 +/- 0.01 to 0.08 +/- 0.01 on the SZ surface when increasing the HA concentration from 0 to 1000 mug/mL and its molecular mass from 10 to 1500 kDa, similar to what was found when using the BB polymer alone. When combining the BB polymer and the 1500 kDa HA, the CoF remained stable at mu = 0.04 +/- 0.01 for both studied contact configurations, highlighting the synergistic interaction of the two macromolecules. Hydrogel wear was characterized by assessing the final gel surface roughness by the means of an interferometer. Increasing HA concentration and molecular weight plus the addition of the BB polymer led to a dramatic surface wear protection with a final gel surface roughness of the hydrogels similar to the untested gels. In brief, the BB polymer in combination with high molecular weight HA is a potential lubricating fluid as well as a wear resistant agent for soft materials lubrication and wear protection. FAU - Faivre, Jimmy AU - Faivre J AD - Ingenierie des Materiaux Polymeres, IMP- CNRS UMR 5223 , Universite de Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , 15 Boulevard Latarjet , 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex , France. AD - Canadian Research Chair in Bioinspired Materials, Faculty of Pharmacy , Universite de Montreal , Montreal , Qc H3T 1J4 , Canada. FAU - Montembault, Alexandra AU - Montembault A AD - Ingenierie des Materiaux Polymeres, IMP- CNRS UMR 5223 , Universite de Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , 15 Boulevard Latarjet , 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex , France. FAU - Sudre, Guillaume AU - Sudre G AD - Ingenierie des Materiaux Polymeres, IMP- CNRS UMR 5223 , Universite de Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , 15 Boulevard Latarjet , 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex , France. FAU - Shrestha, Buddha Ratna AU - Shrestha BR AD - Canadian Research Chair in Bioinspired Materials, Faculty of Pharmacy , Universite de Montreal , Montreal , Qc H3T 1J4 , Canada. FAU - Xie, Guojun AU - Xie G AD - Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States. FAU - Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof AU - Matyjaszewski K AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1960-3402 AD - Center for Macromolecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry , Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania 15213 , United States. FAU - Benayoun, Stephane AU - Benayoun S AD - Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systemes, CNRS UMR 5513 , Ecole Centrale de Lyon , 36 Avenue Guy de Collongue , 69134 Ecully Cedex , France. FAU - Banquy, Xavier AU - Banquy X AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3342-3179 AD - Canadian Research Chair in Bioinspired Materials, Faculty of Pharmacy , Universite de Montreal , Montreal , Qc H3T 1J4 , Canada. FAU - Delair, Thierry AU - Delair T AD - Ingenierie des Materiaux Polymeres, IMP- CNRS UMR 5223 , Universite de Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , 15 Boulevard Latarjet , 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex , France. FAU - David, Laurent AU - David L AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3632-8537 AD - Ingenierie des Materiaux Polymeres, IMP- CNRS UMR 5223 , Universite de Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , 15 Boulevard Latarjet , 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex , France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. DEP - 20181204 PL - United States TA - Biomacromolecules JT - Biomacromolecules JID - 100892849 RN - 0 (Hydrogels) RN - 0 (Lubricants) RN - 0 (Polyamines) RN - 0 (Polyelectrolytes) RN - 0 (polycations) RN - 9004-61-9 (Hyaluronic Acid) RN - 9012-76-4 (Chitosan) SB - IM MH - Biomimetic Materials/*chemistry MH - Chitosan/analogs & derivatives MH - Friction MH - Hyaluronic Acid/chemistry MH - Hydrogels/*chemistry MH - Lubricants/*chemistry MH - Polyamines/chemistry MH - Polyelectrolytes MH - Synovial Fluid/chemistry EDAT- 2018/11/22 06:00 MHDA- 2020/01/24 06:00 CRDT- 2018/11/22 06:00 PHST- 2018/11/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/01/24 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/11/22 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acs.biomac.8b01311 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biomacromolecules. 2019 Jan 14;20(1):326-335. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.8b01311. Epub 2018 Dec 4.