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Biomedical devices

Biomedical devices

Targeted infection control

27 Jun 2018
This article first appeared in the 2018 Physics World Focus on Biomedical Physics

Medical devices that incorporate hydrogels into silicone rubber could release antibiotics into areas where they are needed most. Erik Brok, Caroline Boudou, Martin Alm and Peter Thomsen describe how neutron scattering is helping researchers to understand and optimize the structure of these silicone-hydrogel networks

Reservoir for disease: Catheters can harbour harmful micro-organisms, such as the yeast Candida albicans, shown in this scanning-electron micrograph. (Image courtesy: Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/Science Photo Library)
Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are one of the biggest challenges in modern healthcare. Within t

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Erik Brok (e.brok@nbi.ku.dk) is a physicist at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Caroline Boudou is an industry liaison officer at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France; Martin Alm is head of polymers at BioModics; and Peter Thomsen is the BioModics chief executive officer.
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