Group Picture, Fall 2018

Rain forced Team Sydlik inside for our biannual pictures, so we decided to make it fun with a tribute to Prof Biscuit and Big Bunny! Perhaps the students will let me wait for a sunny day next time ;)

They made me take the picture inside, I made them all have bunny ears. Seems fair!

Left to Right: Stefanie Sydlik (Professor), Stephen Schmidt (GS1, Chem), Anne Arnold (GS5, Chem), Zoe Wright (GS5, Chem), Karoline Eckhart (GS2, Chem), Brian Holt (Research Scientist), Wyatt Swift-Ramirez (senior BS/MS, Chem), Avanti Pandit (junior BS/MS, Chem), Francesca Starvaggi (junior, Chem), Sasha Kennedy (junior, Chem)

We also took a serious one.

But Prof Biscuit disapproves...

Functional Graphenic Materials as Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration

A new review from Team Sydlik came out in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine! The invited paper entitled "Functional graphenic materials, graphene oxide, and graphene as scaffolds for bone regeneration" details the next generation of graphenic materials and their perspective application towards bone regeneration. Functional graphenic materials (FGMs) are chemically modified graphenes that include moieties to assist in regeneration by enhancing cell-biomaterial interactions. These materials offer tunable properties and could be the next generation of bone implant. Read more about it in the full paper.