کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7237 542 2011 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Single nonfouling hydrogels with mechanical and chemical functionality gradients
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی شیمی بیو مهندسی (مهندسی زیستی)
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Single nonfouling hydrogels with mechanical and chemical functionality gradients
چکیده انگلیسی

Hydrogels are widely studied as tissue engineering scaffolds, but the biological tissues they are designed to mimic are often complex tissues with non-uniform chemical and mechanical profiles. This work reports a new strategy to create hydrogels composed of a continuous sheet of a single nonfouling but functionalizable material with mechanical and/or chemical functionality gradients. By using different combinations of functionalizable or nonfunctionalizable versions of nonfouling carboxybetaine methacrylate (CBMA) and carboxybetaine dimethacrylate crosslinker (CBMAX), various hydrogels with gradients of crosslinking densities and/or functionalizable groups can be created. In this work, we demonstrate this concept with two nonfouling hydrogels, both with a mechanical gradient: one with uniform functionalizability and the other with a gradient in chemical functionalizability. With this versatile system, hydrogels with built-in gradient profiles of various types can be controlled at will for a given application.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biomaterials - Volume 32, Issue 33, November 2011, Pages 8456–8461
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