The pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a transformative shift toward personalized medicine and new methods for controlled delivery of those drugs are necessary. MOFs are an exciting potential sorbent due to their extremely high surface areas (1,000 m^2/g and 10,000 m^2/g) and ultrafine molecular sieving ability. In this project, we designed, constructed, and validated a system and mathematical model for assessing the drug release profiles from porous media. The work culminates with a systematic perspective identifying the need for stable, size-tunable frameworks that could serve as an excellent and effective drug delivery system.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Whitcomb, Colby
• Palumbo, John P
• Scott, Corey
• Bennett, Matthew Ryan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032218-134406

Advisor

• Teixeira, Andrew R

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-03-22

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Chemical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright