Porcine
decellularized dermal matrix (pADM) was a type of collagen-based
medical scaffold material with excellent biological properties. Because
of the lack of antibacterial properties, the wound infection caused
by bacteria during the treatment process greatly affected the recovery
and even the life safety of patients. In this paper, a creative design
idea of antimicrobial material was proposed based on free radical
polymerization reaction. The amphoteric monomer sulfobetaine methacrylate
(SBMA) was employed to cross-link with methacrylated pADM (MA-pADM)
by free radical polymerization to obtain cross-linked pADM grafted
with amphoteric ions (C-MA-SBMA-pADM). The collagen scaffold after
cross-linking had sufficient collagen stability, proper mechanical
properties, and retained the natural structure of collagen while introducing
hydrophilic sulfonic acid groups and quaternary ammonium groups, and
C-MA-SBMA-pADM exhibited excellent hydrophilic properties by water
contact angle detection. The results of cellular experiments showed
that the scaffold had good cytocompatibility. Escherichia
coli and Staphylococcus aureus were used
to test the antibacterial properties of the material, and the results
showed that the cross-linked C-MA-SBMA-pADM had good antibacterial
effects. In conclusion, a cross-linked collagen-based scaffold was
prepared with good mechanical properties, cytocompatibility, and also
excellent antibacterial properties, which was expected to be more
widely used in the field of tissue engineering scaffold materials.