Characteristics of highly flexible PDMS membranes for long-term mechanostimulation of biological tissue

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 700-705

  Armbruster, Caroline ^a   Schneider, Matthias ^a   Schumann, Stefan ^a   Gamerdinger, Katharina ^a   Cuevas, Maximiliano ^b   Rausch, Sophie ^c   Baaken, Gerhard ^d   Guttmann, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mechanical properties; Rat diaphragm; Silicone membranes

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; FLEXIBLE MEMBRANES; INNER DIAMETERS; MECHANO-BIOLOGY; MEMBRANE MECHANICS; PDMS MEMBRANE; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; PRODUCTION PROCESS; RESIN COMPONENTS; SILICONE MEMBRANE; SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; SPIN-COATING PROCESS; STRAIN-DEPENDENT; TWO-COMPONENT;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BIOMECHANICS; BIOREACTORS; COATINGS; DIAPHRAGMS; MICROCHANNELS; RESINS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICONES; STRAIN;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

DIMETICONE; ELASTOMER; RESIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAPHRAGM; FILM; MALE; MATERIAL COATING; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; RAT; RODENT; ROTATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TIME; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOREACTORS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAPHRAGM; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 71649087210     PISSN: 15524973     EISSN: 15524981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.31446     Document Type: Article

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