Conférence scientifique du vendredi midi - Xavier Banquy

Molecular brushes : hariy materials with slipery properties

vendredi 18 mars 2022 de 12:00 à 13:00

Pour l'axe Santé musculosquelettique, réadaptation et technologies médicales.

During the past few years we have been investigating the behavior of molecular brushes at the solid liquid interface and more recently in biological media using a structure-property relationship approach. We have systematically compared monoblock versus multiblock molecular brushes and evaluated their lubricating and antifouling properties in a wide range of media.

Using surface sensitive techniques such as the Surface Forces Apparatus, we were able to rationalize the correlations between polymer architecture, conformation and interfacial properties. Our more recent work aims to study the properties of these materials in living organisms, especially at the surface of cartilage and in the blood stream.

Our advances in that area show that molecular brushes are excellent candidates as nanocarriers for drug delivery to the brain as well as good chondroprotective agents.

Présenté par

• Xavier Banquy, PhD
  Professeur agrégé, Faculté de Pharmacie, Département de chimie (FAS)
  Institut en Génie Biomédical
  Université de Montréal

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