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Design & Characterization of Tribologically Enhanced Hydrogels for Biomedical ApplicationsA Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of theRequirements of the Renée Crown University Honors Program atSyracuse UniversityKatherine LindsleyCandidate for Bachelor of Science Degreeand Renée Crown University HonorsSpring 2020Honors Thesis in Your MajorThesis Advisor: _______________________ Dr. Michelle Blum, Associate Teaching ProfessorThesis Reader: _______________________ Dr. Jackie Anderson, Assistant Teaching ProfessorHonors Director: _______________________ Dr. Danielle Smith, Director AbstractOsteoarthritis is a disease that involves the degradation of articular cartilage until bones are in contact with each other. Bone on bone contact in joints produces pain that often limits mobility of those suffering with it. Articular cartilage does not easily heal on its own, therefore leaving treatment options limited. The most common is an invasive and painful surgery that partially or fully replaces the joint which causes long recovery periods with limited implant life spans. Here lies the need for a material with comparable friction and wear properties as articular cartilage. This project includes the use of tribologically enhanced hydrogels and the addition of lubrication to determine its effects on the coefficient of friction and resistance to wear seen in these hydrogels. The hydrogels are fabricated with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) crosslinked during freeze thaw cycles to maintain their structure. Lubrication, PMEDSAH and PMPC (brush only), is either added before the crosslinking stage, or is grafted on top of the hydrogel after swelling. The coefficient of friction (COF) of each sample is determined through loading into a rheometer and spun against a petri dish at different angular velocities at a load of 40 Newtons. The wear is determined through running a pin over the surface of the hydrogel for 10,000 cycles then imaged with the HIROX microscope to determine the degree of wear. Results indicate that PMPC brush gels reduce the COF of friction the most. Individually, the low and medium blends of PMEDSAH have the lowest COF of blend gels. The blends also exhibit a repulsive interaction whereas the plain hydrogels exhibit an adhesive interaction. The wear results indicate that weight percentages of 70% and above of PVA experience little to no wear at all. Weight percentages below 70% were inconclusive due to positioning error within the tribometer. The positioning drifted during testing causing for the gels to pop out of the holder and causing for the gels to puncture prematurely. The results of this research indicate inclusion of lubrication of any kind decreases the COF for the hydrogels. The most effective lubrication is the PMPC brush hydrogel and is not dependent on the type of bath it is submerged in. With continued testing of different compositions along with determining proper wear, will help develop a material with comparable tribological characteristics to articular cartilage.Executive SummaryThis project includes the development of a material that can replace articular cartilage within the human body. Articular cartilage is the most common type of cartilage in weight bearing joints and often wears away over time. Once defects are found in the cartilage, it is hard for it to selfheal since there is no direct blood supply to the cartilage. This usually means that once damage has been done, there is little that can be done to repair it. The degradation of cartilage leading to bone on bone contact is known as osteoarthritis. Patients with Osteoarthritis can develop symptoms such as pain, swelling, and limited mobility within the joints. Current treatment options are limited and often invasive with long recovery periods. The most common treatment is a partial or total joint replacement. This surgery is not only invasive, but it includes long recovery periods and the implants often has short life spans. This treatment is less than ideal especially for younger patients that want to resume high impact physical activity after surgery.Because of these poor treatment options, there exists a need for a material with comparable qualities to articular cartilage that can be transplanted to preserve the original joints. The material must reduce friction between surfaces as well as being able to withstand large loads over long periods of time such that mimics human activity. The material being studied in this project is hydrogels. Hydrogels are a biocompatible material that is created from a polymer that is swelled in water. Specifically, the polymer used is polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). The addition of lubrication in the composition of the hydrogels should help reduce the friction experienced from the material but may hinder how much wear the hydrogel can withstand before breaking.The hydrogels are created by measuring out PVA and mixing with deionized water to create a solution. This solution is repeatedly frozen and thawed to create the structure that the hydrogel needs. The samples are then swelled in water to create the gel like texture. Lubrication can be added in two ways. Lubrication can be added in various concentrations to the solution before freezing and thawing or after the hydrogel is swollen by grafting the lubricant on the surface. Two different polymers were used as lubricants, PMEDSAH and PMPC. The PMEDSAH was used for both blend and brush gel testing, but PMPC was only used in the brush hydrogel testing. Once samples are created, they are put through two types of testing. The first type is to determine the friction experienced by the hydrogel. The hydrogels are placed into a machine called a rheometer which takes the hydrogels and forces them to spin against a petri dish filled with water. The forces recorded by the rheometer help to calculate the coefficient of friction which determines the friction experienced by the material loaded. The wear test takes each hydrogel and puts a pin on top and moves it back and forth across the surface 10,000 times. This test determines how much the surface wears away after continual usage. The hydrogels are then imaged to determine exactly how much wear occurred.This project is significant because it aims to develop a material to replace articular cartilage. The development of this material would allow people suffering from arthritis caused by cartilage degradation to have a treatment that is less invasive than total joint replacement. This also would allow patients to preserve their own joints along with being able to return to an active lifestyle without having to worry about the life span of their implants. This material could revolutionize the treatment for conditions such as Osteoarthritiseasing the pain of the patients who live with it every day. Table of ContentsAbstract……………………………………….……………….………….. iiExecutive Summary………………………….……………….………….. ivChapter 1: Introduction……………………………………………… 1Chapter 2: Methods……………………………………………………… 4Chapter 3: Results and Discussion……………………………………… 9Chapter 4: Conclusions……………………………………………… 12Chapter 5: Future Work……………………………………………… 14Works Cited.……………………………………………………………… 19Chapter 1IntroductionThroughout its lifetime, the body is subjected to repeated and varying loads, even through the smallest of activities. This repeated loading places high levels of stress on various structures, including joints. These joints are meant to connect various bones that allow for humans to move and perform activities. Since joints are subject to repeated motion and stresses, connective and protective tissues are positioned in joints to smooth and distribute stress between opposing surfaces of the bone. -635951230438154080510Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 1: (a) Illustration of the six primary joints found in humans. (b) Illustration of the primary structures found in the knee joint. This joint behaves like a complex hinge.Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 1: (a) Illustration of the six primary joints found in humans. (b) Illustration of the primary structures found in the knee joint. This joint behaves like a complex hinge.The most common type of joint in the body is known as a synovial joint [1]. This joint is meant to support a wide variety of motions and forces from loads that can be as high as several times a person’s own body weight. Synovial joints contain a variety of functions necessary for fluid movement and weight bearing. The structure that is particularly of interest for this research project is articular cartilage. Articular cartilage plays a role in reducing friction and distributing stress between bone surfaces. This tissue is smooth and white and helps create the fluidity of motion necessary for proper function. This tissue is also characteristically soft with a high-water content, about 60 to 80% [2]. The solid portion of the tissue is mostly composed of several types of collagen, which creates the structure needed for bearing weight. Like any material that is subjected to dynamic loading at various intensities, the cartilage in joints is prone to degradation, especially in people who perform high impact exercises regularly. Focusing specifically on the knee, these high impact exercises can include jogging, jumping, dancing, hiking, and more. Since the structure of articular cartilage lacks high cell density and is not associated with blood vessels, self-repair does not occur often or efficiently [2,3]. This means that the smallest of tears, about 2-4 nm, do not usually heal, and degrade surrounding tissue quickly causing bone on bone contact [4]. Cartilage is meant to reduce friction and distribute stress along the bone surfaces, so once there is no protection against bone interaction. This is often associated with Osteoarthritis, which can cause pain and stiffness in joints [5]. These symptoms are often chronic and severely limits mobility of those who are diagnosed. There are few treatment options, but often they are quite invasive. Treatments that try to preserve the original joint include a transplant of healthy cartilage. This procedure requires cartilage from a lower weight bearing joint that is transplanted into the affected area [6-8]. This treatment is usually reserved for young patients, those under the age of 50 [9]. This surgery allows for preservation of the original joint, but it directly impairs another joint for its own repair. Also, the success widely depends on the age of the patient and the ability to locate enough tissue for transplantation. Since this option is severely limited, patients often require a partial or total replacement of the joint [10-12]. Even though this alleviates the original problem, there are several drawbacks to this treatment method as well. The surgery itself is invasive and requires a long recovery period with lots of physical therapy. Coupled with the short life span of these implants, this treatment option is less than ideal, especially for younger patients. Transplantation would be a superior option, but the lack of healthy cartilage that can be used without the severe impairment of other joints reduces the viability of this procedure. Transplantation, though, could be revolutionized with the introduction of a synthetic material that can be transplanted into the joint without impairing others. However, there currently is no known man-made material with sufficient enough properties to those of articular cartilage [13,14]. The goal of this research is to investigate known synthetic materials to determine and enhance properties focusing on finding materials that could possibly replace articular cartilage. Finding a replacement for this cartilage would allow less invasive treatment options such as the transplantation of a synthetic material without impairing other joints. This also would alleviate the need for partial and total joint replacements. Without the need for such invasive surgeries, patients can find relief without the long and intense healing process especially for younger patients. The study of such synthetic materials, articulating, and their properties is known as tribology [15]. Tribology is an expansive field that studies the friction and wear behavior of articulating surfaces of mechanical systems. The theories based on chemistry, material science, and solid and fluid mechanics can be applied to other less conventional surfaces such as joints within the human body [15,16]. The study of tribology along with the addition of a material called hydrogels allowed for the development of tribologically enhanced hydrogels.Hydrogels are a type of polymer that is widely used for biomedical applications. Hydrogels are crosslinked polymers that are swelled in water to create a gel like texture. The crosslinked polymers allow for these gels to retain their shape despite their submersion in water. Varying stiffnesses of these structures can be manipulated based on how much polymer is added. Hydrogels have a wide range of applications in biomedical technology, but due to their poor tribological properties they are not ideal for the use in load bearing applications such as the replacement of articular cartilage [17-19]. However, through the changing in composition of the polymers, their tribological properties can be enhanced. This investigation specifically focuses on the reduction of the coefficient of friction (COF) of Poly-vinyl Alcohol (PVA) hydrogels as well as determining the amount of wear that each hydrogel can withstand. Chapter 2MethodThis research focuses on reducing the coefficients of friction of PVA hydrogels by the addition of lubricants. The lubrication is added in two forms, a blend and a brush. The blends have the lubricant added during fabrication while the brush gels have a structure grafted on top of the hydrogel surface to create lubrication.The fabrication of PVA hydrogels without lubrication is described below. A solvent is created with PVA and deionized (DI) water so that 40% by weight consisted of the PVA. The mixture was heated to 90 degrees Celsius in an isothermal oven for six hours to create a viscous solution. Note that the solution was not stirred in order to prevent bubbles from forming within the gels. The solution then undergoes four cycles of freezing and thawing. Freezing occurs at -80 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes, and thawing occurs directly after at room temperature for 30 minutes. The freeze thaw cycles allow for the polymers to crosslink, which creates the crystalline structure. The samples were then submerged in DI water for 48 hours to allow for swelling. The final samples are 12mm in diameter and have a thickness of 5mm. For wear testing only, hydrogels were made using the same method as described above, but with varying weight percentages of PVA. The varying weight percentages is to determine if wear properties can be enhanced by varying the chain length of the base polymer used. 107952423564107954100830Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 2: Schematic of hydrogel fabrication procedure: (a) Structure of PVA and a cartoon depiction of PMEDSAH, (b) Illustration of heating PVA-PMEDSAH solution, (c) Hydrogel crosslinking and (d) Final product.0Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 2: Schematic of hydrogel fabrication procedure: (a) Structure of PVA and a cartoon depiction of PMEDSAH, (b) Illustration of heating PVA-PMEDSAH solution, (c) Hydrogel crosslinking and (d) Final product.In order to fabricate the blend hydrogels, a zwitterionic polymer PMEDSAH was added to the solution before the freeze thaw cycles. The polymer was prepared through a free radical polymerization of MEDSAH. This reaction was performed for six hours at 65 degrees Celsius. The aqueous PMEDSAH was then added to the PVA solution in varying molecular weights. The molecular weights of the final samples varied from 50% to 80% in intervals of 10% PMEDSAH. Once the blend solution was completed, the samples follow the same procedure as described previously.In order to fabricate the brush hydrogels, the procedure varies slightly. Since the lubrication is grafted on top of the hydrogel, a plain PVA hydrogel must be fabricated first. Unlike the blend hydrogels, two different zwitterionic polymers were grafted to the surface of the hydrogels. These polymers include both PMEDSAH and PMPC. The brush gels were fabricated using atom transfer radical polymerization. Grafting consists of two steps, initiator functionalization, and surface-initiated polymerization using the technique above. Brush hydrogels were fabricated for each polymer to include low, medium, and high concentrations of lubrication grafted to the surface. Once grafting was completed the hydrogels are then swelled in 147129545212000DI water.1178560472758Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 3: Brush hydrogel fabrication method0Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 3: Brush hydrogel fabrication methodAll sample types, blends with different molecular weights, and brush gels with different grafted polymers were stored submerged in DI water to ensure swelling equilibrium. Hydrogels were only out of DI water when transferring them to holders for testing.In order to simulate joint conditions, two different tests were conducted, friction and wear. The purpose of these tests is to determine which sample provides comparable qualities to articular cartilage.7092957736205Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 4: Schematic illustration of the test conditions for measuring coefficient of friction0Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 4: Schematic illustration of the test conditions for measuring coefficient of friction13569954989830To determine the friction experienced by each gel, a rheometer was used. Three of the same hydrogels were placed into a holder, careful to release any air underneath the gels. The holder was then loaded into the rheometer. Using the program for this device, the gels are lowered into a bath of DI water in a petri dish. The gels are lowered until they touch the bottom of the dish and is loaded to 40 Newtons. The gels are then brought back out of the water for the start of the run. During the run the samples are lowered, loaded to a constant 40 Newtons, and are rotated on the bottom of the petri dish at different angular velocities as specified in the code setup. The angular velocities are randomized for independent results. This procedure is repeated for all hydrogel compositions. The brush gels repeat the same procedure twice but replacing the DI water with a .2 Moles NaCl bath during the second run. This is only for the brush gels to determine if a saltwater solution reduces friction further. All raw data from the friction testing was exported and compiled to calculate coefficients of frictions (COF) for each test ran. The COF was calculated using the torque and normal force measurements from raw data from the rheometer. 10805396280208Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 5: Schematic illustration of the test conditions simulating wear Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 5: Schematic illustration of the test conditions simulating wear 991870389001000The second test simulates wear that hydrogels would encounter due to movement. This test consists of a loaded pin travelling across the hydrogel for 10,000 cycles to determine the wear patterns for each PVA weight percentage. One hydrogel is placed into the base of the tribometer at a time, again escaping any air bubbles that may have been ttapped during insertion into the holder. The base is then filled with DI water to ensure the gel does not dry out. The top portion of the tribometer is put into place and the pin is manually shifted to the center of the hydrogel. Centering the pin ensures that the wear track does not extend beyond the hydrogel. The wear track is 5mm forward and 5mm backwards from the center of the hydrogel so that the entire track is 10mm. Only the plain PVA samples with varying compositions were used. The enhanced hydrogels with added lubrication were not used for the wear testing. The samples ran about 10,000 cycles without extra weight added. At the conclusion of the wear test, each hydrogel was imaged with the HIROX microscope to determine wear patterns and calculate the severity of degradation. If the hydrogel was not ripped apart, the same procedure was repeated on a new hydrogel of the same weight percentage, this time with additional weights loaded on the tribometer to simulate increased loading during movement. Chapter 3Results and DiscussionFriction testing had varying results based on the type of lubricant used. The figure below shows the results for the blend hydrogels. The blend hydrogels included low, medium, and high molecular weights of added PMEDSAH. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 6: Average Coefficient of Friction vs Angular velocity for blend hydrogelsThe figure as seen above shows the average coefficient of friction vs the angular velocity of the sample. The neat PVA represents a plain hydrogel for comparison between the low, medium, and high blends of PMEDSAH. As can be seen, lower blends of PMEDSAH have lower COF than the high PMEDSAH blend at all angular velocities. This suggests that with higher molecular weights of PMEDSAH, the stiffer the hydrogels and the more friction seen between the gel and the surface. The low and medium blends also have lower COF than the Neat PVA sample, except for the highest angular velocity. It should also be noted that the average COF of the low and medium blends are very close in value despite the difference in lubrication. As also seen from the figure above, all PMEDSAH blends have a positive relationship. This means that the average COF increases as angular velocity increases. However, this is not the case for the Neat PVA sample. This sample’s average COF increases dramatically until about 1 rad/s, and then decreases significantly to the highest angular velocity of 5 rad/s. This may be attributed to theories based in fluid mechanics and polymer physics [20]. A widely accepted repulsion absorption model proposed by Gong and Sada describes friction of hydrogels against solid substrates [21]. This theory involves repulsive and attractive cases. Repulsive cases involve viscous flow of solvent which dictates the friction force magnitude [22]. The attractive case notes that the friction force is attributed to the elastic force associated with the stretching absorbed polymer chains during motion [23]. The figure above represents that the Neat PVA displays an adhesive interaction whereas, the blends display a repulsive profile. Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 7: Average Coefficient of Friction for brush hydrogels in both DI and 0.2 M NaCl bath solutionsThe figure above represents the average COF versus the different brush hydrogels in both the DI and saltwater baths. As can be seen, the lowest COF is the PMPC PVA brush hydrogel, whereas the PMEDSAH brush hydrogel has the highest coefficient of friction. Specifically, the PMEDSAH brush hydrogels display a 63% increase in COF in the DI water. However, there is a 40% reversible change in COF when the PMEDSAH hydrogel is tested in the 0.2 M NaCl solution. This behavior may be due to interchain association of the grafted surface. The grafted brush act like hairs on the hydrogel surface, and the ions in the saltwater solution could act as a detangling agent in the hairs to reduce friction. As can be seen in the graph, the PMEDSAH hydrogel is the only sample significantly affected by the change in the bath confirming the assumption of “detangling” with the presence of the NaCl solution. The PMPC brush functionalized hydrogel does not show a dependence in solvent, but also displays a 60% reduction in COF.Wear testing included hydrogels with 40-80% molecular weights varying by 10%. The 70 and 80 weight percent hydrogels only had surface scratches without weight added for 10,000 cycles. The other weight percentage of hydrogels were torn in half during the wear testing. The tearing occurred at the edge of the hydrogels which should not have happened if the starting position was correct. The 60 wt% hydrogel was tested repeatedly to ensure that the starting position was directly center, so the pin did not go further than the bounds of the gel. Even with correct positioning, the hydrogels were still being ripped on the sides which signified an issue. The 60 wt% was run one more time, but the test was checked every half hour. It was determined that throughout the duration of the wear testing, the tribometer was drifting from the center position. The drifting caused for the pin to go past the boundary of the hydrogel. Since the top portion of the tribometer is held in place through gravity, the pin dropped off the surface of the hydrogel. When changing directions to go back across the gel, the pin wedged the hydrogel out of its holder causing for the sides of the gel to be exposed. The pin continued its wear track throughout the duration of the test causing for the pin to be dragged through the sides of the hydrogel creating significant tearing. The drifting appeared to get worse through the duration of the test, and since the lower wt% were less stiff, they were more likely to be evacuated from their holder. The hydrogels were not imaged due to the inaccuracies of the wear results.Chapter 4ConclusionsThe results from this project indicate varying degrees of conclusively towards finding a replacement material for articular cartilage. Friction results suggest that any sort of lubrication decreases the coefficient of friction. The most effective blend hydrogel at reducing the average COF was the blend gel, with either a low or medium blend of PMEDSAH. The most effective brush gel by far was the high concentration of PMPC polymers. However, it is important to note the PMEDSAH brush gels COF reduced once the hydrogel was submerged into the NaCl indicates that the average COF can be reduced depending on type of solution it is submerged in. Overall, the most effective hydrogel composition was the low/medium PMEDSAH blend with the highest COF seen of being around 0.10. The wear testing results were less conclusive since the hydrogels were being wedged out of their holder during testing. The initial tests show that the higher the molecular weight percentage of PVA used, the more resistant to wear that hydrogel becomes. The degree of the degradation of samples below 70% is not known, due to the positioning issue. However, from the friction results, the higher wt% is added to the gel, the higher the coefficient of friction. This proposes that the stiffer gels though have better wear qualities, may have significantly higher COF than those less resistant to wear.Unfortunately, this hypothesis cannot be tested yet due to inaccuracy of positioning in the tribometer. The pin travelling past the boundaries of the hydrogel suggests that the degree of accuracy of the positioning system is not enough to return the pin to the same origin every time. This creates a small horizonal shift after each cycle, which eventually causes for the pin to fall off the surface of the hydrogel, puncturing the hydrogel prematurely. The inaccuracy of method needs to be addressed before reliable data can be collected about wear properties of each hydrogel composition. The addition of lubrication helps reduce the coefficient of friction, when compared to a plain sample. This result is encouraging towards developing a tribologically enhanced material that reduces friction comparable to articular cartilage. Further testing needs to be done to determine if the addition of these friction reducing lubricants affects the wear properties of the hydrogels. These tests will help to determine optimal properties from both friction, and wear tests to determine a composition that would optimize both wear and friction properties in hydrogels. The need for more research still exists to find an optimal material comparable to articular cartilage. With this research and others, steps are being made towards finding an adequate replacement for those suffering with cartilage loss. The continuation of this research is working to provide noninvasive treatments to Osteoarthritis and other painful conditions associated with cartilage degradation. With continued advancements, a material can be developed that reduces friction effectively, withstand loads experienced by typical movement, is a less invasive treatment than knee replacements, and is a more attractive treatment for younger patients who will not have to experience long recovery times or limited life spans of implants. Chapter 5Future WorkExtensive discovery still needs to occur to develop a comparable material to articular cartilage. The most important step in allowing for continued progress is the correction of the translational error in the tribometer. Future work includes determining where this error lies. The accuracy issue could either be through coding that is too broad or a component within the tribometer that does not provide the necessary resolution for the precise movement needing during wear testing. Once this issue is resolved, wear testing can continue to determine the proper wear patterns of different weight percentages of PVA. These results would help determine how much load the hydrogels can withstand before puncturing over a prolonged period. The other hydrogel compositions would also be included in the wear testing allowing to see how the addition of lubrication effects the wear properties in each hydrogel.Proper imaging will also be documented to calculate the degree of degradation and wear after each test. These images and computational degree of wear will help to classify how well the hydrogel performs in comparison to other compositions. The imaging techniques using the HIROX microscope will also need to be refined. 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