Degradable Poly(ethylene glycol) Hydrogels for 2D and 3D Cell Culture
Progress in biotechnology fields such as tissue engineering and drug delivery is accompanied by an increasing demand for diverse functional biomaterials. For decades, research in polymeric biomateria...
Keywords: Absorption, Angiogenesis, Biomaterials, Catalysis, Cell culture, Degradations, Eliminations, Growth factors, Infrared spectroscopy, Ligands, Michael Addition, Polymerization reactions, Ring-opening polymerization
Patterning of PEG-based Hydrogels - Engineering Spatial Complexity
Most biomaterial scaffolds developed for tissue engineering applications are relatively homogeneous and lack the complexity and organization of the in vivo cellular microenvironment. While these homo...
Mariah S. Hahn
Material Matters 2010, 5.3, 62.
Keywords: Absorption, Adhesion, Adsorption, Bacterial conjugations, Biomaterials, Confocal microscopy, Diffusion, Immobilization, Polymerization reactions, Radical polymerization
Versatile Cell Culture Scaffolds via Bio-orthogonal Click Reactions
Devising biomaterial scaffolds that are capable of recapitulating critical aspects of the complex extracellular nature of living tissues in a three-dimensional (3D) fashion is a challenging requireme...
1,2Malar A. Azagarsamy, 1Navakanth R. Gandavarapu, 1,2Kristi S. Anseth*
Material Matters, 2012 v7, n3
Keywords: Addition reactions, Adhesion, Biomaterials, Catalysis, Cell culture, Cell signaling, Chemical reactions, Click chemistry, Cycloadditions, Degradations, Growth factors, Huisgen Cycloaddition, Ligands, Michael Addition, Peptide synthesis, Polymerization reactions, Step-growth polymerization