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Kickoff meeting of the BONEGEL project.

STRONG-UR partners reunited for the 2nd Consortium Meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands in Oct. 2025.

It's a UV-curable hydrogel system that requires no photoinitiator, achieved through the inclusion complex between β-cyclodextrin and benzophenone. By tuning different parameters, we could precisely control the hydrogel’s properties while maintaining excellent biocompatibility.

Excited to share that our new article — “A photoinitiator-free UV-curable hydrogel with tunable properties using dextrans modified by adamantane, benzophenone, and β-cyclodextrin” — has just been published in Applied Materials Today. 🎉

doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2025.102964

I had the pleasure of attending 8th European Cyclodextrin Conference in Milan, where I was awarded the Best Flash Award 🏆.

Yes, it's me, again.

Look at how beautiful and high-resolution the LED screen is at Aalborg University.

Hereby, I introduce my proud dextran-based supramolecular hydrogel. It's self-healing, biocompatible, and UV-curable without photoinitiators. More details come with the latest publication. Just enjoy the poster now.

You cannot imagine how much fried food there is in Belgium. The uni's canteen is quite tasty, better than AAU for sure. I loved fried food, overate, and got food poisoning. So in my life for the 1st time I called the ambulance and it sent me to the hospital at midnight.

I went to Ghent University, Belgium, for my external stay in September 2024. Photo-rheometer was the target, that I don't have here in Aalborg. There were also filters for UV light with specific wavelengths. That's why I'm in purple.

International Cyclodextrin Symposium was held in June 2024 in Dunkerque. I made a newly designed poster, with the best design among all the participants' posters. But Many people got sick from the finger food at the conference. My colleagues and I missed Budapest.

The 17th Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials Meeting was held in Helsingør, Denmark, in 2023. The meeting was a mess, but the speakers are quite good at biomaterials. I gave a flash presentation in 3 minutes. Thank god I'm skilled at explaining complex concepts concisely.

In September 2023, I attended the 1st conference in my life, EuroCD 2023, in Budapest. I made a poster to introduce my research on a novel supramolecular hydrogel. Surprisingly, I won the Audience Choice Award. Budapest is a wonderful city with pleasant weather and excellent food

In this work, we developed a dextran-based supramolecular hydrogel, functionalized with cyclodextrin and UV-cured, to immobilize ferrocene via host–guest inclusion. This hydrogel provides cell adhesion resistance—an important feature for biosensing applications.

Excited to share our latest publication, “UV-cured cyclodextrin modified hydrogels for the immobilization of electron transfer mediators and enzymes on electrode surfaces”, on Materials Advances.

doi.org/10.1039/D5MA00311C

This review article provides an introduction to the construction of supramolecular hydrogels and their application in bioinks. The co-authors of this work are Pablo Pennisi, Thorbjørn Terndrup Nielsen, and Kim Lambertsen Larsen. I appreciate their significant contribution.

My first article, Advanced Supramolecular Hydrogels and Their Applications in the Formulation of Next-Generation Bioinks for Tissue Engineering: A Review, has now been officially published in the International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.143461