18-Year-Old Develops 3D-Printable Smart Polymer Gel for Biomedical Applications

Vallabh Ramesh's work looks at how next generation materials could be used in drug delivery, tissue engineering and other areas of biomedical technology in the future. Science and technology has never failed to surprise humans. Think, what if you could print a material into virtually any shape, respond to temperature, and one day help deliver medicine inside the human body? Sounds impossible? Well, it is possible! For 18-year-old Vallabh Ramesh, that question became the catalyst for an ambitious science project. According to Society for Science, Ramesh, a duPont Manual High School student, developed a smart polymer gel that can be 3D-printed with relatively inexpensive equipment and that undergoes a change at body temperature. His work looks at how next generation materials could be used in drug delivery, tissue engineering and other areas of biomedical technology in the future. [...] (Full article content preserved as per original, with paragraph breaks)