Surfactant-free poly(lactide-co-glycolide) honeycomb films for tissue engineering: Relating solvent, monomer ratio and humidity to scaffold structure

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 423-430

  Wu, XuJun ^a,b   Jones, Matthew D ^b   Davidson, Matthew G ^b   Chaudhuri, Julian B ^a   Ellis, Marianne J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

PLGA; Scaffold; Tissue engineering; Water droplet templating

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION METHOD; FABRICATION PARAMETERS; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; HONEYCOMB FILMS; HONEYCOMB-STRUCTURED FILMS; MG63 CELLS; MONOMER RATIO; PLGA; POLY LACTIDE-CO-GLYCOLIDE; POLY(LACTIDE-CO-GLYCOLIDE) FILMS; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; RESULTING MATERIALS; SCAFFOLD STRUCTURES; SURFACTANT-FREE; TEMPLATING; WATER DROPLET TEMPLATING;

DROP FORMATION; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MONOMERS; SCAFFOLDS; SOLVENTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TISSUE;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

POLYGLACTIN; SOLVENT; SURFACTANT; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; METHODOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CELL LINE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; POLYGLACTIN 910; SOLVENTS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 78651468094     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-010-0438-y     Document Type: Article

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