Mimicking natural cell environments: design, fabrication and application of bio-chemical gradients on polymeric biomaterial substrates
- 20 May 2016
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of Materials Chemistry B
- Vol. 4 (24) , 4244-4257
Abstract
Gradients of biomolecules on synthetic, solid substrates can efficiently mimic the natural, graded variation of properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM).Keywords
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