Dendrimers and Dendrons as Versatile Building Blocks for the Fabrication of Functional Hydrogels

Molecules

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Kaga, Sadik ^a   Arslan, Mehmet ^b   Sanyal, Rana ^a   Sanyal, Amitav ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YALOVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Click chemistry; Dendrimers; Dendrons; Hydrogels; Polymers

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; DENDRIMER; HYDROGEL;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLICK CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEL; SYNTHESIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CLICK CHEMISTRY; DENDRIMERS; HYDROGELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84968584122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules21040497     Document Type: Review

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