Speaker: Loh Xian Jun, adjunct professor at National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, executive director of Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR

Date: November 27, 2024

Time: 16:00-17:00 pm

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Sponsor: State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University

Abstract:

As society ages, aging medical problems such as organ damage or failure among senior citizens increase, raising the demand for organ repair technologies. Synthetic materials have been developed and applied in various parts of human body to meet the biomedical needs. Hydrogels, in particular, have found extensive applications as wound healing, drug delivery and controlled release, and scaffold materials in the human body. The development of the next generation of soft hydrogel biomaterials focuses on facile synthetic methods, efficacy of treatment, and tunable multi-functionalities for applications. Supramolecular 3D entities are highly attractive materials for biomedical application. They are assembled by modules via various non-covalent bonds (hydrogen bonds, p–p stacking and/or van der Waals interactions). Biodegradable thermogels are a class of such supramolecular assembled materials. Their use as soft biomaterials and their related applications are of interest.

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