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| Project Leader: | Victoria Albright victoria.albright@tamu.edu Materials Science & Engineering |
| Faculty Mentor: | Dr. Svetlana Sukhishvili, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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TBD |
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Team Size:
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2 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Hard working students will be rewarded with opportunities to present their work at a conference, earn co-authorship on publications or even become a full member of our research group.
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Team Needs:
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Science & engineering majors will be given preference. Students need to be highly self-driven, quick learning and detail oriented. Students will be required to write up daily summaries of what work was done in the lab so that other team members can pick up where he or she left off.
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Description:
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The future of polymeric materials as biological implant coatings to prevent bacterial infection and stimulate cell growth depends on the ability to selectively trigger the release of components from the materials on demand. Our research group currently explores manipulating chemistry of polymer particles and films in order to develop polymeric materials that can deliver antibiotics in a controlled fashion. This work will explore assembly of antimicrobial agents and enzymes or temperature responsive particles into layer-by-layer coatings with biodegradable polymers. Students are needed to study which drugs can be loaded into temperature responsive particles, quantify amount of payload absorbed and study its release as a function of temperature and/or pH. Students will become familiar with the layer-by-layer assembly, ellipsometry, and various other techniques. Check out our recent works on biomedical polymer coatings https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201800132 and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1742706117305020
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