📄🚨 Our latest paper uncovers the role of Macrophages to alter PP mesh surfaces. In turn as surface degradation occurs, macrophages modify gene expression, leading to a mixed response with upregulated pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrotic markers. Insigneo Institute
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New publication update!🚨Amidst the holiday festivities we celebrated the release of our most recent study:

🌐 doi.org/10.1002/advs.2…

Many thanks to all the co-authors who contributed to this study. Here’s to more discoveries, collaboration, and growth in the upcoming year.

Does the quality of your FIB etching keep you up at night? 🤔

Check out our recent paper for an effective monitoring method! 👍

Many thanks to Maciej (ExxonMobil/Uni of Antwerp) and Alex (NYSBC) for their valuable contributions. 🤝

Polymers MDPI

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More effective testing of medical devices benefits clinicians, manufacturers and most importantly patients. Please read my thoughts below ⬇️

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Featured on the hub this morning, a new study by Nicholas T.H. Farr et al into the effect of implanting polypropylene surgical mesh into patients pslhub.org/learn/improvin… #pslhub #mesh #patientsafety

Always a pleasure to engage and share our research. Many thanks to Kath Sansom for taking an active interest and proposing the questions.

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🚨 New publication alert 

🔑 This is the first study which has investigated the residual material properties of Titanium-coated polypropylene mesh post clinical deployment. 

🤝 Materials at TUoS, Düren Hospital and University of Witten Herdecke

📎 doi.org/10.1002/jbm.b.… Insigneo Institute

Positively 'beam'-ing 😃

An absolute pleasure to be back at the Diamond Light Source running more #ptychography scans of 3D printed scaffolds. Also fantastic to be joined this time by David and Andrea. All smiles despite the late nights! Materials at TUoS Royce at the University of Sheffield Insigneo Institute

Synthesis of #CarbonDots 👩🏼‍🔬scientific cooperation Joanna Ortyl Nicholas T.H. Farr Results are coming soon ⏳📑

Herbie is ready for the new season… Preston North End FC Terrace

Really proud to have collaborated on 'The Secrets of Size: Going Small' which will premiere this evening on BBC4 at 9pm. Radio Times have called it 'stunning' and having seen some of the imagery it contains I would absolutely agree. Materials at TUoS #AcademicTwitter

I am pleased to share my new paper. This study presents an enhanced biomaterial characterisation methodology, which can be implemented to allow for greater quality assurance in the development of future biomaterials. Insigneo Institute Materials MDPI Materials at TUoS
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Very pleased to share our most recent publication from PhD student James Nohl. See the link below for 50 days' free access to the article! Congratulations James!

Faraday Institution FI_FutureCat Materials at TUoS Oxford Materials

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Delighted to see our paper in Polymer Chemistry showcased as one of “Polymer Chemistry Most Popular in 2021”. Royal Society of Chemistry Materials at TUoS Oxford Materials

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Link to collection - pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/ar…

In 2022, we'll install #neaSNOM in the lab INP Greifswald. The microscope allows the #nanoanalytics of samples in lives #science and #nanotechnology . We are looking forward to entering into a long-term cooperation with this #analytics . CEITEC Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute Nicholas T.H. Farr

The use of PP mesh caused life-changing complications in thousands of women.

Research led by Nicholas T.H. Farr from Materials at TUoS and EngineeringSheffield has developed a new way of testing biomaterials, avoiding a repeat of the vaginal mesh scandal.

Read more 👇
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