Original title: Structure investigation of hydrogels using a cryo-SEM
Authors: Adámková, Kateřina ; Hrubanová, Kamila ; Samek, Ota ; Trudičová, M. ; Sedláček, P. ; Krzyžánek, Vladislav
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Recent Trends in Charged Particle Optics and Surface Physics Instrumentation, Skalský dvůr (CZ), 20180604
Year: 2018
Language: eng
Abstract: Hydrogels can be characterized as elastic hydrophilic polymer chains connected in network\nwhich are able to swell notably when exposed to aqueous media by absorbing considerable\namounts of water. Besides being a constituent of living organisms, nowadays, there are\nvarious fields hydrated polymers (e.g. polyvinyl alcohol, collagen, and starch) can be utilized\n– in both biological and non-biological form. Classic examples of such applications are\nhuman health and cosmetics (contact lenses, wound healing dressings and artificial\nreplacement tissues – skin, arterial grafts, cornea and spinal disc replacement), pharmacy\n(drug delivery systems), bioengineering, food industry, agriculture etc. Also, hydrogels\ncan reversibly change their shape when being exposed to a temperature change.
Keywords: agarose; cryo-SEM; freeze-etching; high pressure freezing; hyaluronic acid; hydrogel; raman spectroscopy
Project no.: GA16-12477S (CEP), GA17-15451S (CEP), LO1212 (CEP), ED0017/01/01
Funding provider: GA ČR, GA ČR, GA MŠk, GA MŠk
Host item entry: Recent Trends in Charged Particle Optics and Surface Physics Instrumentation. Proceedings of the 16th International Seminar, ISBN 978-80-87441-23-7

Institution: Institute of Scientific Instruments AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0287592

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