Carbon nanotube reinforced hybrid microgels as scaffold materials for cell encapsulation

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 362-372

  Shin, Su Ryon ^a,b   Bae, Hojae ^a,b   Cha, Jae Min ^a,b   Mun, Ji Young ^d   Chen, Ying Chieh ^e   Tekin, Halil ^a,b,c   Shin, Hyeongho ^a,b   Farshchi, Saeed ^f   Dokmeci, Mehmet R ^a,b   Tang, Shirley ^f   Khademhosseini, Ali ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D tissue engineering; biocompatibility; carbon nanotubes; cell laden microgels; tunable stiffness

Indexed keywords

CELL ENCAPSULATIONS; CELLULAR BEHAVIORS; EASY FABRICATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (HMSCS); HYDROGEL SYSTEM; IN-VITRO; MECHANICAL SUPPORT; MICRO-GELS; MICROSCALE STRUCTURES; PATTERN FIDELITY; SCAFFOLD MATERIALS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) CONSTRUCT; TISSUE CONSTRUCTS; TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CELL CULTURE; GELS; HYBRID MATERIALS; HYDROGELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; REINFORCED PLASTICS; STEM CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOCAPSULE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; INSTRUMENTATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICE; NANOCAPSULES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NIH 3T3 CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84856202952     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203711s     Document Type: Article

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