Defying Gravity. Karnac Books - Journal Article. Primal Scenes. Jacques Derrida - Google Book Search. Abstracts - A - G. Abstracts A-G (pdf) H-N (pdf) O-Z (pdf) Groups (pdf) Novel Biomaterials for Cell Transfection and Extracellular Matrices Marie-Caline Abadjian Mentor: Zhibin Guan In the area of biomaterials research, our group focuses on the design of new and improved material systems derived from naturally abundant building blocks (carbohydrates and peptides).
In using these starting materials we have synthesized biomaterials with: 1) rich functionality, making them ideal for further structural fine-tuning and allowing optimization of polymer systems; 2) inherent biocompatibility, being derived from biotic starting materials; 3) biodegradability, as polymer chains are linked with enzymatically cleavable bonds; and 4) scalability, because of the simplicity with which the polymers are synthesized and the bulk availability of the starting materials.
Thus far, a novel class of carbohydrate-derived side-chain polyethers was synthesized by condensation polymerization.