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Lecture 5: Controlled Release Devices Last time: Using enzyme substrate and cytokine peptides to engineer biological recognition of synthetic polymers Today: principles of controlled release devices based on degradable polymers Synthesis of controlled release devices Theory of polymer-based controlled release

Lecture 7: Hydrogel Biomaterials: Structure and Physical Chemistry Last Day: programmed/regulated/multifactor controlled release for drug delivery and tissue engineering

Lecture 10: Bioengineering applications of hydrogels: Molecular Imprinting and Drug Delivery Last Day polyelectrolyte gels Polyelectrolyte complexes and multilayers Applications in bioengineering Theory of ionic gel swelling Toda Molecular imprinting

Lecture 8: Physical Hydrogels Last Day Overview of biomedical applications of hydrogels Structure of covalent hydrogels Thermodynamics of hydrogel swelling Today Bonding in physical hydrogels Structure and thermodynamics of block copolymer hydrog Reading

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Lecture 13: Molecular Devices Last time biological strategies for inorganic templating by organic materials Biomimetic organic template materials Biomimesis of bone Today Reading V Vogel, 'Reverse engineering: Learning from proteins how to enhance the performance