Self-assembly of large and small molecules into hierarchically ordered sacs and membranes

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5871, 2008, Pages 1812-1816

  Capito, Ramille M ^a   Azevedo, Helena S ^a,b   Velichko, Yuri S ^c   Mata, Alvaro ^a   Stupp, Samuel I ^a,c,d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOFIBER; POLYMER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ION; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; POLYMER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; LIQUID; MEMBRANE; MOLECULE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHONDROCYTES; DIFFUSION; ELASTICITY; ELECTROSTATICS; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOSTRUCTURES; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PEPTIDES; PERMEABILITY; POLYMERS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 41349096038     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154586     Document Type: Article

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