Photopolymerizable hydrogels for tissue engineering applications.

By Kytai Truong Nguyen, Jennifer L. West. Biomaterials, 2002

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Subfields: Organic Chemistry, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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Gelatin-Methacryloyl Hydrogels: Towards Biofabrication-Based Tissue Repair (2016, background): “In contrast to indirect enzymatic crosslinking, photoinitiation provides good temporal and spatial control over the crosslinking process [25], which is essential for creating an architecturally complex tissue analog.”
Scaffold-based tissue engineering: rationale for computer-aided design and solid free-form fabrication systems. (2004, background): “Recent reviews summarize the chemistry and rationale for using these polymers in scaffold-based tissue engineering [ 58 ,59].”
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