Tuning and Predicting Mesh Size and Protein Release from Step Growth Hydrogels

Measuring the mesh size of hydrogels

Controlled Aloin Release from Crosslinked Polyacrylamide Hydrogels: Effects of Mesh Size, Electric Field Strength and a Conductive Polymer

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of hydrogel mesh size, a conductive polymer, and electric field strength on controlled drug delivery phenomena using drug-loaded polyacrylamide hydrogels prepared at various crosslinking ratios both with and without a conductive polymer system. Poly(p-phenylene vinylene), PPV, as the model conductive polymer, was used to study its ability to c...

Bioactive hydrogels made from step-growth derived PEG-peptide macromers.

Synthetic hydrogels based on poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) have been used as biomaterials for cell biology and tissue engineering investigations. Bioactive PEG-based gels have largely relied on heterobifunctional or multi-arm PEG precursors that can be difficult to synthesize and characterize or expensive to obtain. Here, we report an alternative strategy, which instead uses inexpensive and readi...

Mesh Size Control of Polymer Fluctuation Lubrication in Gemini Hydrogels

a Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States b J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States c Institute for Cell Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, United States d Department of Materials Science and ...

language learning strategies and vocabulary size of iranian efl learners

learning a second or foreign language requires the manipulation of four main skills, namely, listening, reading, speaking, and writing which lead to effective communication. it is obvious that vocabulary is an indispensible part of any communication, so without a vocabulary, no meaningful communication can take place and meaningful communication relies heavily on vocabulary. one fundamental fac...