Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Dynamic, Reconfigurable, and Hierarchical Biosynthetic Composites via Collagen Self-Assembly within Highly Crowded Microgel Pastes.
Elif Narbay, Abbygail Caine, Sanika Pandit, Gabrielle Montgomery, Marion Harper, E Daniel Cárdenas-Vásquez, Hatte Hamilton, Megan Hicks, Daniel Mattar, Kyle Choy, Marco Bisoffi, L Andrew Lyon
Published: 202510.1002/adma.202515114
Abstract
The fabrication of a new class of biomimetic biomaterials is reported using nanostructured microgel pastes formed from "overpacked" assemblies of ultrasoft poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide-co-acrylic acid) microgels and their composites with collagen. Des…
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