Cooperative Research Between SUSL and WUT

Cooperative Research Between SUSL and WUT

Achievements Sep 15, 2020

Based on the MoU between Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka and Wuhan University of Technology signed in 2013, the two universities have initiated a research collaboration to conducted extensive and substantial research cooperation and joint training of talents in the field of biomedical materials and engineering.    

Biomedical materials have become an important branch of contemporary materials science, especially with the rapid development of biotechnology and breakthroughs, biomedical materials have become the focus of research and development of scientists around the world. ThereforeThrough this bilateral cooperation, the development and application of medical products and technologies can be promoted in both countries.   

The research cooperation is a joint research collaboration between Prof Yingchao Han of School of Material Science and Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology and Prof. M. Nirmali Wickramaratne Dean Faculty of Medicine at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka as the Chief researchers and Ms. Harshani Perera (Head Department of Sport Science and Physical Education)  and several other researchers from the Wuhan University of Technology as members of the research team. Therefore this program functions as a collaboration between Wuhan University of Technology, China,  Faculty of Medicine SUSL, and Faculty of Applied Sciences, SUSL The research focuses on developing biodegradable organic-inorganic nanocomposite biomedical membrane, which is mainly used for the repair of tissue defects.  Through cooperative research, we have co-published 9 academic papers and jointly trained 7 talents.

Trained Human Resources 

Completed

  • Ms. Shalika Harshani Perera MSc. Biomaterial Science  (2017) (Head Department of sport Sciences and Physical Education Faculty of Applied Sciences)

Reading for MSc, degrees (to date)

  • Ms. Sriyani Koragage

  • Ms. Iresha Balasooriya

Undergraduate  Final Year Research Projects Completed

  • Ms. Sriyani Korale Gedara (2017)

  • Mr. Kasun Methlal (2017)

  • Mr. Sajith Fernando (2017)

  • Miss. Chamali Wijeratne (2019)

  • Miss. Nadeesha Wipulaguna (2019)

Visits of Prof.  Yingchao Han and his Research Team to SUSL

  • Plenary Speaker, International Conference of Sabaragamuwa University (ICUSL) 2019

  • Plenary Speaker, International Conference in Frontiers in Nanotechnology Sabaragamuwa University  2016

Research Publications

  1. Luminescence Enhanced Eu3+/Gd3+ Co-Doped Hydroxyapatite Nanocrystals as Imaging Agents In Vitro and In Vivo, Y Xie, W He, F Li, TSH Perera, L Gan, Y Han, X Wang, S Li, H Dai ACS applied materials & interfaces 2016, 8 (16), 10212-10219                

  2. Rare earth doped apatite nanomaterials for biological application, TSH Perera, Y Han, X Lu, X Wang, H Dai, S Li Journal of Nanomaterials 2015              

  3. Ultrasonically assisted preparation of poly (acrylic acid)/calcium phosphate hybrid nanogels as pH-responsive drug carriers, F Li, Q Xing, Y Han, Y Li, W Wang, TSH Perera, H Dai, Materials Science and Engineering: C 2017, 80, 688-697                      

  4. Quantitative Detection Method of Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles Based on Eu3+ Fluorescent Labeling in Vitro and in Vivo. Y Xie, TSH Perera, F Li, Y Han, M Yin ACS applied materials & interfaces 7 (43), 23819-23823

  5. Electrospun preparation and biological properties in vitro of polyvinyl alcohol/sodium alginate/nano-hydroxyapatite composite fiber membrane  , P Ni, H Bi, G Zhao, Y Han, MN Wickramaratne, H Dai, X Wang , 2019 Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 173, 171-177

  6. Influence of alginate fixation on the adsorption capacity of hydroxyapatite nanocrystals to Cu2+ ions  J Guo, Y Han, Y Mao, MN Wickramaratne Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 2017, 529, 801-807

  7. Controllable synthesis of poly (acrylic acid)-stabilized nano-hydroxyapatite suspension by an ultrasound-assisted precipitation method D Yan, Y Lou, Y Han, MN Wickramaratne, H Dai, X Wang Materials Letters 2018, 227, 9-12 

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  8. Ultrasound-Assisted Synthesis and Characterization of Heparin-Coated Eu3+ Doped Hydroxyapatite Luminescent Nanoparticles Q Xing, X Zhang, D Wu, Y Han, MN Wickramaratne, H Dai, X Wang Colloid and Interface Science Communications 2019, 29, 17 -25

  9. Effect of nano-hydroxyapatite on protein adsorption and cell adhesion of poly (lactic acid)/nano-hydroxyapatite composite microspheres, HMCS Wijerathne, D Yan, B Zeng, Y Xie, H Hu, MN Wickramaratne, SN Applied Sciences 2020, 2 (4), 1-8

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