Sentences with phrase «called hydrogels»

They found that a recombinant version of the SM50 protein, rSpSM50, is a highly aggregation - prone protein that forms tiny jelly - like structures called hydrogels in solution.

In an effort to create a power source for future implantable technologies, a team led by Michael Mayer from the University of Fribourg, along with researchers from the University of Michigan and UC San Diego, developed an electric eel - inspired device that produced 110 volts from gels filled with water, called hydrogels.

University of Illinois researchers have developed a new technique to create a cell habitat of squishy fluids, called hydrogels, which can realistically and quickly recreate microenvironments found across biology.

Stroock created the same tension in his transpiring system by using a high - tech fabric of cross-linked polymers called a hydrogel.

Standard tissue engineering involves seeding types of cells, such as those that form ear cartilage, onto a scaffold of a polymer material called a hydrogel.

Not exact matches

The World Health Organization expresses concern with the primary ingredients in hydrogels — the acrylic acid and acrylamide, also called sodium polyacrylate.

Gel Pads: Medela makes a wonderful product called Tender Care Hydrogel Pads.

Ting Liu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and her colleagues built a specialised material out of a layer of hydrogel sandwiched between a stretchy plastic material called elastomer, and then coated in silicone rubber to keep the hydrogel from drying out.

Their new approach — called freeform reversible embedding of suspended hydrogels (FRESH)-- worked.

Even worse, he says, when their surroundings change, stress granules switch from being hydrogels to a different type of structure, called liquid droplets, the same way hair gel might dissolve in water if you heat it up.

The research, focused on developing thermosensitive nano - hydrogels which, through a polymerization technique, mixes substances with different chemical and physical characteristics, achieving a chemical reaction and forming a set of small spheres called polymers.

The material the group was working with for retinal implants was a hydrogel called PNIPAM, poly (N - isopropylacrylamide), which had a unique attribute that made it a natural fit for this application: When cooled, the hydrogel became a liquid for easy application, and when heated, it became a viscous semi-solid with strong adhesion.

Benoit and her team were able to manipulate the time it took for hydrogels to dissolve by modifying groups of atoms — called degradable groups — within the polymer molecules.

After the filaments are injected into the body, the resulting hydrogel network functions as a drug depot that slowly degrades by breaking down into spherical nanomaterials called micelles, which are programmed to travel to specific targets.

Ting Liu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and her colleagues built the nanogenerator by sandwiching a layer of hydrogel between a stretchy plastic material called an elastomer, then coating it in silicone rubber to keep the hydrogel from drying out.

Using a method that they published earlier this year, the team arranged metal - oxide nanosheets into a single plane within a material by using a magnetic field and then fixed them in place using a procedure called light - triggered in - situ vinyl polymerization, which essentially uses light to congeal a substance into a hydrogel.