Cartilage-like mechanical properties of poly (ethylene glycol)-diacrylate hydrogels

Biomaterials

Volumn 33, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 6682-6690

  Nguyen, Quynhhoa T ^a   Hwang, Yongsung ^b   Chen, Albert C ^a   Varghese, Shyni ^a,b,c   Sah, Robert L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Compression; Crosslink; Modulus; PEG; Tension

Indexed keywords

ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; ARTICULAR SURFACES; CARTILAGE REPAIR; CARTILAGE TISSUE ENGINEERING; COMPRESSION AND TENSION; COMPRESSIVE MODULI; COMPRESSIVE STIFFNESS; CONFINED COMPRESSION; CROSSLINKS; DIACRYLATES; DYNAMIC STIFFNESS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL MATERIALS; MODULUS; PEG CONCENTRATION; PEG HYDROGEL; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STRAIN-DEPENDENT; SWELLING PROPERTIES; SWELLING RATIO; TENSILE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TENSION; TENSION TESTS;

BIOMECHANICS; CARTILAGE; COMPACTION; COMPRESSION TESTING; CROSSLINKING; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; STIFFNESS; TENSILE TESTING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

HYDROGELS;

MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; MACROGOL DIACRYLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPRESSION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DYNAMICS; HYDROGEL; HYPOTHESIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOMECHANICS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; ELASTIC MODULUS; HYDROGELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84864023474     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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