Thiolated hyaluronic acid (HA-SH) hydrogel was obtained by a single component and formed by the self-crosslinking of two free thiol groups.
No chemical additives, cytotoxic crosslinking and byproducts were added and produced in experiment.
The gelation time, swelling property, mechanical property and intelligent degradation behavior of the hydrogel could be controlled.
The characterizations of controllable self-crosslinking HA-SH hydrogels has great potential to meet the requirement of biomaterials applied in different fields of biomedicine.