Processing Techniques and Applications of Silk Hydrogels in Bioengineering

Hydrogels are an attractive class of tunable material platforms that, combined with their structural and functional likeness to biological environments, have a diversity of applications in bioengineering. Several polymers, natural and synthetic, can be used, the material selection being based on the...

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Main Authors: Michael Floren, Claudio Migliaresi, Antonella Motta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-09-01
Series:Journal of Functional Biomaterials
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2079-4983/7/3/26