This Week in Chemistry

 Wednesday 15th May 2013

Departmental Seminar

Ultrasonic production of responsive polymer microspheres for targeted delivery

Speaker: - Gareth Price. Department of Chemistry, University of Bath

There is tremendous current interest in developing systems that will deliver drugs or other active molecules to particular sites and release then in response to particular stimuli. In the past, ultrasound has been used to produce micron-sized hollow spheres from proteins. Our interest has been to adapt this technology to use synthetic polymers based around amphi-philic copolymers containing segments that are responsive to pH, temperature or light to make microspheres filled with solutions of dyes or drugs that can be released on demand. The lecture will describe the background methods, the copolymer preparation and demonstrate some potential uses of the materials.

2:00 pm, Chemistry Lecture Theatre 6

Level 4 Poster Session

3.15 pm to 5.00 pm, Chemistry Room C48