The application relates to the technical field of medical materials, in particular to an
antioxidant and bacteriostatic
chitosan hydrogel and a preparation method thereof. The method is characterized in that
lipoic acid is first grafted on a
chitosan molecular chain to prepare modified
chitosan; then the modified chitosan is mixed with a functional additive, a
photo irradiation is performed to initiate ring-opening crosslinking of a
lipoic acid disulfide five-membered ring, meanwhile, a mercapto-
dithiol exchange reaction occurs between mercapto groups on the surface of the functional additive and a
disulfide bond, and a three-dimensional network hydrogel is rapidly formed; the functional additive is prepared through
ultraviolet light reaction of mercapto
titanium oxide microspheres, a synergistic
bacteriostatic agent and a modifier, and a three-dimensional bacteriostatic
network layer is formed on the surface of the
titanium oxide microspheres; the chitosan hydrogel prepared by the method has excellent antibacterial performance and good
antioxidant performance, is suitable for the biomedical field such as wound dressings,
tissue engineering scaffolds and
drug sustained-release carriers, and has a wide application prospect.