Main goal

The main goal of the fellowship was the preparation of injectable magnetic hydrogels with tailored microstructure based on short chain peptides as scaffolds for soft tissue engineering. The project also focused on the aspects often overlooked in the literature on the subject, i.e. the exact description of the mechanical and magnetorheological properties of ferrogels, which determine the practical application of the obtained ferrofluids. It is worth noting that ferrogels have not been intensively studied in the literature as tissue engineering scaffolds so this area is mostly unexplored. Thus the proposed research on ferrogels as potential platforms for tissue engineering will give an opportunity to critically discuss various design considerations for an efficient ferrogels-based scaffolds in tissue engineering.