Hydrogels and crosslinking methods
Workshop description
Topic: biomedical engineering, biomaterials
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
The woorkshop offers possibility to familiarize yourself with hydrogels and their crosslinking methods from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.
Hydrogel is a 3D network of polymer chains linked together resembling the composition of biological tissues.
You will see how to activate the crosslinking of polymer precursor solution to form a hydrogel with light, for instance. Hydrogels are utilized e.g. in contact lenses, drug delivery and as cell culturing scaffolds instead of actual biological tissues.
Hosts: Briitta Korsulainen, Heidi Vänskä
Location: SM5 labs
Time: Group 1 at 13-14.300 and Group 2 at 14:45-16:15
Number of participants: 12/group.