Alignment hierarchies: Engineering architecture from the nanometre to the micrometre scale

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2010, Pages

  Kureshi, Alvena ^a   Cheema, Umber ^a   Alekseeva, Tijna ^a   Cambrey, Alison ^a   Brown, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collagen fibril; Mesoscale; Microscale; Nanoscale; Plastic compression; Tissue alignment

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COLLAGEN; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; HISTOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SCAFFOLDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COLLAGEN FIBRILS; MESOSCALE; MICRO-SCALES; NANO SCALE; PLASTIC COMPRESSION; TISSUE ALIGNMENT;

TISSUE;

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN GEL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUID FLOW; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REPAIR;

EID: 78649899323     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0346.focus     Document Type: Article

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