“…This has been of interest to the field of soft chemistry, as the physicochemical properties of chelated hydrogels can be tailored to suit applications in self healing, [2,[5][6][7][8][9] antibiotic, [6,[10][11][12] wound healing, [12][13][14][15] drug delivery, [16,17] mechanical actuation, [6,[18][19][20][21][22][23] stimuli responsive materials by redox [24] or homogeneous reactions, [7,[25][26][27][28] catalysis, [29][30][31] sensing, [32,33] bioinspired materials with fluorescent, [34] adhesive properties, [4] among others. Seeking to harness the capabilities of these materials, several publications have evaluated the interaction of metal ions and biomacromolecules, most notably, histidine-containing proteins, [3,7,35] alginate, [29,36] chitosan, [13,25,[37][38][39] and derivat...…”