Nanofiber biomaterials

Springer Handbook of Nanomaterials

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 977-1010

  Palchesko, Rachelle N ^a   Sun, Yan ^b   Zhang, Ling ^a   Szymanski, John M ^a   Jallerat, Quentin ^a   Feinberg, Adam W ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; CELL ENGINEERING; HISTOLOGY; NANOFIBERS; PHASE SEPARATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SPINNING (FIBERS); TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY , SCANNING; FABRICATION STRATEGIES; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; NATIVE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; NEURAL TISSUE ENGINEERING;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

EID: 84944323960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20595-8_27     Document Type: Chapter

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