Multifunctional nanofibers towards active biomedical therapeutics

Polymers

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 186-219

  Sharma, Jaishri ^a   Lizu, Monira ^a   Stewart, Mark ^a   Zygula, Kyle ^a   Lu, Yang ^b   Chauhan, Rajat ^b   Yan, Xingru ^b   Guo, Zhanhu ^a,b   Wujcik, Evan K ^b   Wei, Suying ^a  

^a LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lamar University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical; Clinical; Electrospun; Multifunctional; Nanofibers; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; DRUG DELIVERY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOMEDICAL; CLINICAL; ELECTROSPUNS; MULTIFUNCTIONAL; THERAPEUTICS;

NANOFIBERS;

EID: 84923814272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym7020186     Document Type: Article

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