Mechanics of Elastin-like Recombinamers hydrogels under mechanical wave pressure
The production of Elastin-like recombiners (ELR) has as objective the production of nano-structural devices that can be used for drug delivery and tissue engineering. The reason of why these materials are so desired are their good mechanical properties, biocompatibility, biodegradability and thermal...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis de maestría |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Valladolid |
| Repositorio: | UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/43580 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/43580 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Biomedicina ELR Propagación ondas mecánicas Viscoelasticidad |
| Sumario: | The production of Elastin-like recombiners (ELR) has as objective the production of nano-structural devices that can be used for drug delivery and tissue engineering. The reason of why these materials are so desired are their good mechanical properties, biocompatibility, biodegradability and thermal sensitivity. The objective of this master thesis is to measure the propagation of mechanical waves inside an ELR hydrogel created in a 1:1 composition with two ELR biopolymers via click reaction. Using an oscilloscope, a wave generator and piezoelectrics we measured three Elastin- Like Recombinamers click gels at different PBS concentrations. The objective of the measurement is to understand the propagation of the mechanical waves in hydrogels depending on their composition and frequency of the mechanical waves. This is rather important because mechanical waves may influence the behaviour of a cell. |
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