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Hydrophilic elastomeric biomaterials based on resilin-like polypeptides.

Manoj B Charati1, Jamie L Ifkovits, Jason A Burdick

  • 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA.

Soft Matter
|June 15, 2010
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Researchers created new modular polypeptidic materials using resilin, a resilient protein. These materials have tunable mechanical and cell adhesion properties for regenerative medicine applications.

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