Week 6: Research and Testing Setup (In Class Meeting)

This week during class, we set up the materials we needed for research. We created a stock of alginate that we plan to use for all of the hydrogels to ensure that they all have the same consistency and our results are not skewed due to different concentrations of alginate. We also created a stock of alginate mixed in with vitamin D to ensure that the vitamin D concentration remained constant throughout all of the shapes we tested. We also discussed the changes in our project proposal as well as tried to create a procedure to make the alginate liquid and the alginate with vitamin D by quantifying the amount of alginate to water to vitamin D and tested out different ratios to see which worked best.