Angewandte Chemie. International edition in English 2012-10-15

A smart nanofiber web that captures and releases cells.

Young-Jin Kim, Mitsuhiro Ebara, Takao Aoyagi

Index: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 51(42) , 10537-41, (2012)

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Abstract

Caught in a web: Photo-cross-linkable temperature-responsive polymer-based nanofiber webs have been synthesized that have the ability to capture, encapsulate, and release cells by dynamically transforming the fibrous structure into hydrogel-like structures by wrapping, swelling, and deswelling processes in response to external temperature changes (see picture).Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.