MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641018548 A) filed by Indian Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Feb. 18, for 'boron loaded silica-based nanoparticles incorporated hydrogel matrix, and methods thereof.'
Inventor(s) include Selvaraj, Vimalraj; Sudhakar, Swathi; Karthikeyan, Mahesh; Gopinath, Renjani; Marimuthu, Chandra Mugesh; Suresh Babu, Renugaa; Swaminathan, Ramakrishnan; and Ramar, Manikandan.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a boron loaded hydrogel scaffold comprising a hydrogel matrix comprising at least one hydrophilic polymer; and 5 mesoporous silicabased nanoparticles loaded with bioactive component, incorporated in the hydrogel matrix, wherein the bioactive component comprises boron. A process for preparing the scaffold including mixing chitosan solution and sodium alginate solution to obtain a mixture and dispersing the mesoporous silica-based nanoparticles loaded with 10 bioactive component in the mixture, followed by crosslinking. The scaffold can be lyophilized further. The scaffold presents a synergistic, biofunctional scaffold with osteogenic, angiogenic, and antimicrobial properties, offering a promising solution for bone repair and other regenerative applications."
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