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People in Research
Felix I. Simonovsky
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Advisor: Buddy Ratner
Department/status: Research Scientist, Bioengineering, UWEB, Ratner group
Project overview:
- Development of mechanical gradient polyurethane films covalently bonded
to the titanium surface and their nanomechanical characterization to
improve stress distribution in artificial hip implants (in collaboration
with UW Chemical Engineering Department, Overney group)
- Synthesis of poly(ether urethanes) incorporating long alkyl side-chains
with pendant carboxyl groups and study of the effect of composition and
the
polymer surface chemistry on protein adsorption for improvements in blood
compatibility (in collaboration with UW Chemical Engineering, Horbett
group)
- Development of a method and composition for the polyurethane surface
modification by covalently bonding of PEG-dendrimers to improve
antibacterial characteristics of surfaces (in collaboration with
University
of Connecticut Health center, Bryers group)
- Development of novel biohybrid material based on the new class of
polypeptide-nonpeptide linear segmented poly(urethane urea) block
copolymers consisting of lysine-content hard segment and two types of
polypeptide segments possessing collagen-like and elastin-like structures.
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