Utilization of directional freezing for the construction of tissue engineering scaffolds

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD

Volumn 374, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 439-442

  Preciado, Jessica A ^a   Cohen, Smadar ^b   Skandakumaran, Prathib ^a   Rubinsky, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMERS; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; FREEZING; LITHOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SCAFFOLDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DENDRITES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

TISSUE;

EID: 1842532977     PISSN: 02725673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2003-42067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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