Three-dimensional graphene foam as a biocompatible and conductive scaffold for neural stem cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Ning ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Gao, Song ^a   Song, Qin ^a   Huang, Rong ^a,b   Wang, Long ^a,b   Liu, Liwei ^a,b   Dai, Jianwu ^a,b   Tang, Mingliang ^a   Cheng, Guosheng ^a,b  

^a SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; GRAPHITE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GAS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; MATERIALS TESTING; MOUSE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GASES; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NEURAL STEM CELLS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84876537531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01604     Document Type: Article

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