Student-paper

Student-paper on hydrogels published in Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical

Master students Kosmas Deligkaris and Tadele Shiferaw decided to submit their student-paper to Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical. This paper was written for the master course ‘Biomedical Signal Acquisition’, one of the courses of the Chair of BIOS. The effort and energy they put in the paper to meet the standards of this international, peer-reviewed paper was rewarded by the acceptance and publication of their paper. BIOS congratulates both master students.

Their paper is about hydrogel-based devices for biomedical applications. The first part of the paper gives a comprehensive, qualitative, theoretical overview of hydrogels’ synthesis and operation. Crosslinking methods, operation principles and transduction mechanisms are discussed in this part. The second part includes applications of hydrogel devices in specific fields of interest. Sensing, fluid control, drug delivery, nerve regeneration and other biomedical applications constitute the main focus of this part. The aim of this paper is to briefly present recent advances of the field, without neglecting older ones, and to discuss important or novel concepts of each.

Details of the paper can be found here:

http:// doi:10.1016/j.snb.2010.03.083