Engineering Processable, Tough Hydrogels with Biological Activity

工程可加工、具有生物活性的坚韧水凝胶

• 批准号: DP200102164
• 负责人: Prof Fariba Dehghani
• 金额: $ 32.65万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-07-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200102164
• 关键词: Engineering; Processable; Tough; Hydrogels; Biological

The project aims to design a new class of tough hydrogels to address issues in engineering complex soft and robust structures. These hydrogels have superior properties compared with current materials as they are biologically active, processable by various manufacturing techniques, elastic and have a capacity for rapid self-recovery that are ideal for soft tissues. Their physical property is tunable by modification of their compositions that enable construction of complex seamless structure such as valved conduit with anistropic property. Expected outcomes of this project include new insights into material design, multi-physics modelling, and multi-material additive manufacturing for broad applications in soft robotics and medical implants.

该项目旨在设计一种新型的坚韧水凝胶，以解决工程复杂的柔软和坚固结构中的问题。这些水凝胶与现有材料相比具有上级性质，因为它们具有生物活性，可通过各种制造技术加工，具有弹性，并且具有快速自我恢复的能力，这对于软组织是理想的。它们的物理性质可通过改变它们的组成来调节，从而能够构造复杂的无缝结构，例如具有各向异性性质的带瓣管道。该项目的预期成果包括对材料设计，多物理建模和多材料增材制造的新见解，用于软机器人和医疗植入物的广泛应用。