Presentation Year

2017

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Tara AlizadehChemistryUndergraduate Student,Diana Sehawneh ChemistryUndergraduate Student,Jordan JacobsChemistryUndergraduate Student,Mitchell WardChemistryUndergraduate Student,Frank CappuccioChemistryFaculty

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Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

The current research focuses on producing hydrogels from chitosan, a bio-renewable bio-compatible and bio-degradable polymer. Hydrogels are used as contact lenses, drug delivery systems, and biomedical applications such as tissue engineering. Chitosan is the deacetylated form of chitin, an abundant biopolymer found in the exoskeletons of crustaceans and insects. Amino acid coupling, using 1-Ethyl-3-(3- dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide (EDC), is employed to covalently attach trans-cinnamic acid to the free amine of chitosan. Modified chitosan is then cross-linked under UV irradiation to produce hydrogels. The swelling capacity and sterilizability are currently under investigation.

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Yes

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327

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