Microfabrication techniques in scaffold development

Nanotechnology and Tissue Engineering: The Scaffold

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 87-119

  Bettinger, Christopher J ^a   Borenstein, Jeffrey T ^b   Langer, Robert ^a,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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