Alginate-collagen fibril composite hydrogel

Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 799-814

  Baniasadi, Mahmoud ^a   Minary Jolandan, Majid ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

AFM nanoindentation; Alginate; composite hydrogel; Mechanical properties; Rheometry; Tensile test; Type I collagen fibril

Indexed keywords

ALGINATE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COLLAGEN; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOINDENTATION; RHEOMETERS; TENSILE TESTING;

AFM NANOINDENTATION; COMPOSITE HYDROGELS; FIBROUS COMPOSITES; FIBROUS HYDROGEL; MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS; RHEOMETRY; TYPE I COLLAGEN FIBRILS;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 84923667170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma8020799     Document Type: Article

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