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Highly Resilient Synthetic Hydrogels with Tunable Mechanical Properties

This technology, developed by a team of polymer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, provides a versatile and simple method for producing highly resilient synthetic hydrogels with excellent mechanical properties comparable to the most efficient, naturally occurring elastic protein called resilin. The method involves the use of photo-initiated...

Published: 8/3/2023 | Inventor(s): Gregory Tew, Melissa Lackey, Jun Cui, Catherine Walker, Alfred Crosby

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Category(s): Material science, Healthcare

Reduced-Pain Syringe Needle Injection Systems

• Reduced-pain syringe needle injection systems PRODUCT OPPORTUNITIES ADVANTAGES • Reduced-pain • User-friendly • Cost-effective TECHNOLOGY DESCRIPTION This invention provides cost-effective and user-friendly syringe needle injection systems that ease patients' discomfort...

Published: 8/10/2023 | Inventor(s): Alfred Crosby, Shruti Rattan

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Category(s): Healthcare, Devices

TUNABLE SURFACE WRINKLES FOR SMART ADHESION

This invention provides a novel, reusable adhesive surface with a well-defined surface wrinkle pattern as well as a facile, scalable and economical method to directly fabricate a patterned adhesive using a bottom-up approach. The patterning process involves swelling a laterally confined polymer film to develop surface wrinkles and photopolymerizing...

Published: 8/3/2023 | Inventor(s): Alfred Crosby, Edwin Chan, Ryan Hayward

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Category(s): Material science, Engineering, Physical Science