Transparent, Nanostructured Silk Fibroin Hydrogels with Tunable Mechanical Properties

ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 964-970

  Mitropoulos, Alexander N ^a   Marelli, Benedetto ^a   Ghezzi, Chiara E ^a   Applegate, Matthew B ^a   Partlow, Benjamin P ^a   Kaplan, David L ^a   Omenetto, Fiorenzo G ^a,b  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cornea; fibroin; hydrogel; silk; transparency

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; METAL ION; NANOMATERIAL; ORGANIC SOLVENT; SILK FIBROIN;

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BOMBYX MORI; CATERPILLAR; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEAL TISSUE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROGEL; NANOFABRICATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; RIGIDITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN FIBROBLAST; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

EID: 84991523469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23739878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5b00215     Document Type: Article

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