Microassembly fabrication of tissue engineering scaffolds with customized design

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 446-456

  Zhang, Han ^a,b   Burdet, Etienne ^a,c   Poo, Aun Neow ^d   Hutmacher, Dietmar Werner ^d,e  

^a IEEE

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (China)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microassembly; Microrobotics; Scaffold; Tissue engineering (TE)

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DESIGN; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BUILDING BLOCKS; CUSTOMIZED DESIGN; MICRO ASSEMBLIES; TISSUE-ENGINEERING SCAFFOLDS;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 46849121617     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2008.917011     Document Type: Article

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