A review of combined experimental and computational procedures for assessing biopolymer structure-process-property relationships

Biomaterials

Volumn 33, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 8240-8255

  Gronau, Greta ^a,b   Krishnaji, Sreevidhya T ^c,d   Kinahan, Michelle E ^e   Giesa, Tristan ^a   Wong, Joyce Y ^e   Kaplan, David L ^c   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopolymers; Collagen; Elastin; Integration; Material design; Silk

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DESIGN PROCESS; ELASTIN; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; MATERIAL DESIGNS; MULTISCALE ENGINEERING; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; STATE OF THE ART; TAILORED MATERIALS; TIME-SCALES;

BIOMATERIALS; BIOPOLYMERS; COLLAGEN; DRUG DELIVERY; GLYCOPROTEINS; INTEGRATION; SILK;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BIOPOLYMER; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOENGINEERING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; COMPUTER MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NANOFABRICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROCESSING; REVIEW; SILK; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNTHESIS;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOPOLYMERS; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; POLYMERS; SILK;

EID: 84866149786     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.06.054     Document Type: Review

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