Advances and rational design of chitosan-based autonomic self-healing hydrogels for biomedical applications

Self-healing hydrogels have been paid growing attention in biomedical applications. The abundance, biocompatibility, biodegradability, antibacterial activity and amino groups’ reactivity make chitosan suitable for constructing autonomously self-healable hydrogels for biomedical applications. In this article, the recent development of chitosan-based self-healing hydrogels has been summarized and discussed. Based on the reversible linkages, either...