Teaching hydrogels how to move like an earthworm

Soft Matter

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 939-944

  Yeghiazarian, Lilit ^a   Arora, Hitesh ^b   Nistor, Vasile ^c   Montemagno, Carlo ^d   Wiesner, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; DRUG DELIVERY; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

BIOCHEMICAL TEST SYSTEMS; EARTHWORM; POLYMER GELS;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 34547214834     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b703774k     Document Type: Article

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