Meeting of the Center for Innovation and High Technology
- May 26, 2022
On May 20, 2022, at the regular meeting of the Centre for innovation and high technology, the report of the Director of the Institute of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of the Georgian Agrarian University, Academician Ramaz Katsarava: “Polymer Biomimetics – Design and Practical Application” was discussed. The report dealt with innovative materials – amino acid polymers, i.e. the creation, study and commercialization of biomimetics. It was noted that a significant drawback of synthetic polymers is their resistance to chemical or biological degradation, which is a serious environmental threat, due to the fact that a significant share of anthropogenic pollution falls on synthetic polymers. Therefore, the creation of environmentally friendly materials has become an issue of topical importance. Four major families of biomimetics have been studied: polyamino acids, pseudopolyamino acids, polydipsippeptides, and pseudo-proteins (PPs). This is a new and distinctive family of recent biomimetics, biodegradable polymers of “Georgian origin”. The advantage of PP is a simple and environmentally friendly manufacturing technology, a wide range of physico-mechanical, physico-chemical and biological properties, which in turn leads to a high potential for the use of PP. The PP is successfully distributed in Georgia, as well as in Canada, China, the USA, the Netherlands and Vietnam, which is a prerequisite for the widespread commercialization of these biomedical materials.
