Cells on arrays of microsprings: An approach to achieve triaxial control of substrate stiffness

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 90-93

  Sochol, Ryan D ^a,b   Heo, Yun Jung ^a   Iwanaga, Shintaroh ^a   Lei, Jonathan ^b   Wolf, Ki Tae ^b   Lu, Albert ^b   Kurihara, Makoto ^a   Mori, Saori ^a   Serien, Daniela ^a   Li, Song ^b   Lin, Liwei ^b   Takeuchi, Shoji ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR BEHAVIORS; CELLULAR FUNCTION; CELLULAR SUBSTRATES; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; LASER LITHOGRAPHY; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION; SUBSTRATE STIFFNESS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; LITHOGRAPHY; MEMS; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 84875461834     PISSN: 10846999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2013.6474184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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