Silk Hydrogels of Tunable Structure and Viscoelastic Properties Using Different Chronological Orders of Genipin and Physical Cross-Linking

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 12099-12108

  Elliott, Winston H ^a,b   Bonani, Walter ^a,c   Maniglio, Devid ^a,c   Motta, Antonella ^a,c   Tan, Wei ^b   Migliaresi, Claudio ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine INSTM Trento Research Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

genipin; high pressure carbon dioxide; large amplitude oscillatory strain; porous hydrogel; silk fibroin

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GELATION; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); STIFFNESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

GENIPIN; HIGH-PRESSURE CARBON DIOXIDE; OSCILLATORY STRAIN; POROUS HYDROGELS; SILK FIBROIN;

HYDROGELS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; FIBROIN; GENIPIN; HYDROGEL; IRIDOID; SILK;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; PH; PHARMACOLOGY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ENGINEERING; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; FIBROINS; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRIDOIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SILK;

EID: 84935911021     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02308     Document Type: Article

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