Mechanically stiff nanocomposite hydrogels at ultralow nanoparticle content

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 246-256

  Jaiswal, Manish K ^a   Xavier, Janet R ^a   Carrow, James K ^a   Desai, Prachi ^a   Alge, Daniel ^a,b   Gaharwar, Akhilesh K ^a,b,c  

^a Texas A M University   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrogels; Mechanical stiffness; Nanocomposites; Nanoparticles; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; REINFORCEMENT; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALITY; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MECHANICAL STIFFNESS; NANOCOMPOSITE HYDROGELS; NANOPARTICLE SURFACE; REINFORCED HYDROGELS; TISSUE-ENGINEERED SCAFFOLDS;

HYDROGELS;

COLLAGEN; DOPAMINE; GELATIN; HYDROGEL; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; MAGNETITE; METHACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; HARDNESS; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; IMMOBILIZED CELL; MATERIALS TESTING; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; MOUSE; NIH 3T3 CELL LINE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; COLLAGEN; DOPAMINE; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GELATIN; HARDNESS; HARDNESS TESTS; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MATERIALS TESTING; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; METHACRYLATES; MICE; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS;

EID: 84989891118     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03918     Document Type: Article

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