BASQUE RESEARCHER CREATES NEW BIOPLASTICS FOR ENCAPSULATION AND MEDICINE PATCHES

BY KEITH NUTHALL A RESEARCHER at Spain's University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has developed new bioplastics that can be used to make capsules and skin patches releasing drugs into patients in a controlled way. Ground-breaking work by Ainhoa Lejardi has enabled her to create new materials from the PVA (poly(vinyl alcohol)) polymer, with new properties that could be exploited by medicine manufacturers. Her discoveries have been published in the Polymer and Macromolecules academic journal. A European Commission note on her work stressed she had focused on PVA ...


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