{"id":22481,"date":"2024-11-04T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T05:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22481"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:29:12","slug":"hydrogel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hydrogel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Hydrogels:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a three-dimensional network composed of <strong>hydrophobic polymers<\/strong> synthesized by crosslinking water-soluble polymers.<\/li>\n<li>Hydrogels can <strong>retain a large quantity of water<\/strong> within their network without disturbing their original structure. This imparts flexibility and swelling properties to the hydrogel structures.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a \u201csmart\u201d material that can <strong>change its structure in response to its environment<\/strong>, such as the local temperature, pH, salt or water concentration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is SARS?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Severe acute respiratory syndrome<\/strong> (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-1.<\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>airborne virus and can spread<\/strong> through small droplets of saliva in a similar way to the cold and influenza.<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>also be spread indirectly<\/strong> via surfaces that have been touched by someone who is infected with the virus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms of SARS include:<\/strong> Persistent, high fever, Chills, Headache, Body aches.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treatment: <\/strong>There\u2019s no established treatment specifically for SARS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a polymer?<\/h3>\n<p>It is any of a class of natural or synthetic substances composed of very large molecules, called macromolecules, which are multiples of simpler chemical units called monomers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2069176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Magic recipes to create hydrogels from viral protein fragments can improve drug delivery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogel is a three-dimensional network composed of hydrophobic polymers synthesized by crosslinking water-soluble polymers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}