by Quinn Lewis | Oct 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
Liquid marbles have presented promising avenues for treatment in tissue engineering and bone regeneration. Comprised of particle films that confine liquid droplets, they are a durable and easily reproducible material. Researchers from the University of Minho in...
by Quinn Lewis | Oct 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Circuit boards in your brain. They sound like something out of a popular sci-fi film, but they’re here. In recent years, researchers have made significant progress toward the use of neural implants to restore the function of the brain in patients with a variety...
by Quinn Lewis | Sep 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
Imagine curing melanoma with only a topical hydrogel. That’s exactly what researchers at Nanjing Tech University are trying to accomplish. Melanoma, the deadliest skin cancer, originates from pigmented skin cells called melanocytes. While it begins on the...
by Quinn Lewis | Sep 25, 2018 | Overview
The theme of my blog will be: Hydrogels and their applications. Hydrogels are three-dimensional materials made from cross-linked polymer chains. They are created by combining hydrophilic polymers with a crosslinker to develop a mesh-like structure. This structure...
