A Stiff Injectable Biodegradable Elastomer

Injectable materials often have shortcomings in mechanical and drug-eluting properties that are attributable to their high water contents. A water-free, liquid four-armed PEG modified with dopamine end groups is described which changes from liquid to elastic solid by reaction with a small volume of...

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Main Authors: Mizrahi, Boaz (Contributor), Shankarappa, Sahadev A. (Contributor), Hickey, Julia M. (Author), Dohlman, Jenny C. (Author), Timko, Brian P. (Contributor), Whitehead, Kathryn Ann (Contributor), Lee, Jung-Jae (Contributor), Anderson, Daniel Griffith (Contributor), Kohane, Daniel S. (Author), Langer, Robert S (Author)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Langer, Robert (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co., 2014-10-29T20:51:53Z.
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