Tailoring Hydrogel Viscoelasticity with Physical and Chemical Crosslinking
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Tailoring Hydrogel Viscoelasticity with Physical and Chemical Crosslinking
Biological tissues are viscoelastic, demonstrating a mixture of fluid and solid responses to mechanical strain. Whilst viscoelasticity is critical for native tissue function, it is rarely used as a design criterion in biomaterials science or tissue engineering. We propose that viscoelasticity may be tailored to specific levels through manipulation of the hydrogel type, or more specifically the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Polymers
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2073-4360
DOI: 10.3390/polym7121539