Eva Rose Balog publishes article about biopolymer-based optical hydrogels
Eva Rose Balog, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, recently published an article in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, a journal of the American Chemical Society.
The article, titled "Stimuli-Responsive Genetically Engineered Polymer Hydrogel Demonstrates Emergent Optical Responses," describes the synthesis and characterization of a hydrogel made by combining stimuli-responsive, stretchy protein polymers with environmentally-sensitive fluorescent organic molecules, creating elastic hydrogels with tunable optical properties.
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