Intrinsically Bioactive Tannic Acid-Grafted Succinoglycan for Self-Healing and Stimuli-Responsive Drug Delivery Hydrogels
Tannic acid grafting provides a practical strategy for introducing bioactive phenolic functionality into microbial polysaccharides for multifunctional hydrogel design. Herein, tannic acid-modified succinoglycan (SG-TA) was prepared through an ascorbic acid/ H2O2-mediated free-radical process. Spectroscopic, thermal, an...