Week 4: Further Research and Scientific Method Creation (In-Class Meeting)

Figure 1: Scientific Method

During class today, we started to create research methods for the hydrogels project we will carry out throughout the term. We followed the scientific method and created a plan using the diagram on the left.

We have already asked the question which is best communicated in the title of the class: how can we modulate the structure of hydrogels to control its therapeutic release?

The first few weeks of the class have been spent doing background research and based on this research, we have constructed the following hypothesis: The ratio of volume to surface area can be changed to prolong drug delivery.

Week 3 was spent on experimentation and we have finally reached the stage where we are developing the final procedure for the entire experiment.