Microfluidic Foaming: A Powerful Tool for Tailoring the Morphological and Permeability Properties of Sponge-like Biopolymeric Scaffolds

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 42, 2015, Pages 23660-23671

  Costantini, Marco ^a   Colosi, Cristina ^a   Jaroszewicz, Jakub ^b   Tosato, Alessia ^a   ͆więszkowski, Wojciech ^b   Dentini, Mariella ^a   Garstecki, Piotr ^c   Barbetta, Andrea ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

alginate; microcomputed X ray tomography; microfluidic foaming; ordered porous structure; scaffolds; solution viscosity

Indexed keywords

ALGINATE; CELL ENGINEERING; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; POLYMERS; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; SCAFFOLDS; SOLUTIONS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VISCOSITY;

GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; ORDERED POROUS; PERMEABILITY PROPERTIES; SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION; SOLUTION VISCOSITY; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

BIOMATERIAL; POLYMER; SURFACTANT;

CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; LAB ON A CHIP; PERMEABILITY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; VISCOSITY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; PERMEABILITY; POLYMERS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84945935780     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08221     Document Type: Article

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