Atomic force microscopy used for the surface characterization of microcapsule immunoisolation devices

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 461-467

  Xu, Keyang ^a,b   Hercules, David M ^a   Lacik, Igor ^a,c   Wang, Taylor G ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Diabetes; Immunoisolation device; Microencapsulation; Surface characterization

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CALCIUM; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; ENCAPSULATION; MORPHOLOGY; SODIUM; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MICROCAPSULE IMMUNOISOLATION DEVICE;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS;

CATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; MEASUREMENT; MICROCAPSULE; MICROENCAPSULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PANCREAS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0032487139     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(19980905)41:3<461::AID-JBM16>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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