Precise control and prediction of hydrogel degradation behavior

Macromolecules

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3567-3571

  Li, Xiang ^a   Tsutsui, Yusuke ^a   Matsunaga, Takuro ^a   Shibayama, Mitsuhiro ^a   Chung, Ung Il ^a   Sakai, Takamasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CANDIDATE MATERIALS; DEGRADABILITY; DEGRADATION RATE CONSTANTS; DEGRADATION TIME; HOMOGENEOUS POLYMERS; HUMAN TISSUES; HYDROGEL DEGRADATION; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; INTRINSIC PARAMETERS; POLYMER NETWORKS; PRECISE CONTROL; UNIVERSAL EQUATION;

BIODEGRADATION; DEGRADATION; RATE CONSTANTS; TISSUE;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 79955666648     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma2004234     Document Type: Article

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