Bioresponsive materials

The goal of this research is to develop a new class of bioresponsive materials that undergo rapid, large-magnitude, volume-phase transitions in response to specific biological stimuli. Our approach to these materials is based on two fundamental aspects of hydrogels (1) hydrogel solvation/desolvation thermodynamics can be perturbed... and... 

A second point of significance is that this work will lead to a new class of bioresponsive materials for a host of applications. Initial applications target biosensors and bioassays colloidal materials provide tremendous versatility in biosensor design. For... 

A. J. Lewis and A. W. Lloyd, in Biomimetic, Bioresponsive, and Bioactive Materials An Introduction to Integrating Materials with Tissues, ed. M. Santin and G. Phillips, Wiley, New York, 2012, p. 95. 

With ceramic materials, four types of bioresponse may be found when implanted in the body ... 

Maguire, P.D., McLaughlin, J.A., Okpalugo, T.I.T., Lemoine, P., Papakonstantinou, P., McAdams, E.T., Needham, M., Ogwu, A.A., Ball, M., Abbas, G.A., 2005. Mechanical stability, corrosion performance and bioresponse of amorphous diamond-like carbon for medical stents and guidewires. Diamond and Related Materials 14 (8), 1277—1288. 

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