Generation of monodisperse silk microspheres prepared with microfluidics

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 643-647

  Breslauer, David N ^a,b   Muller, Susan J ^a,c   Lee, Luke P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM NANOINDENTATION; CONTROLLED RELEASE; CORE-SHELL; FLUID SYSTEMS; GLASS CAPILLARIES; MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MONODISPERSE; MONODISPERSE MICROSPHERES; SHEET STRUCTURE; SILKWORM COCOONS; SYSTEM FLOW;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOINDENTATION; SILK;

MICROSPHERES;

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BETA SHEET; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILK;

BOMBYX MORI;

MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSPHERES; SILK; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 77950133003     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: 15264602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm901209u     Document Type: Article

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