Toward the New Generation of Surgical Meshes with 4D Response: Soft, Dynamic, and Adaptable

Herein, a facile approach toward transforming a 2D polypropylene flexible mesh material into a 4D dynamic system is presented. The versatile platform, composed by a substrate of knitted fibers of isotactic polypropylene (iPP) mesh and a coating of thermosensitive poly( N ‐isopropylacrylamide‐co‐ N,N’ ‐methylene bis(acrylamide) (PNIPAAm‐ co ‐MBA) hydrogel, covalently bonded to the mesh surface, after cold‐plasma surface treatment and radical...