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Injectable Supramolecular Polymer-Nanoparticle Hydrogels for Cell and Drug Delivery Applications
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Biological self-assembly of injectable hydrogel as cell scaffold via specific nucleobase pairing
Huaping Tan1, Chao Xiao, Jinchen Sun
1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China. hptan@njust.edu.cn
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 18, 2012
Abstract:
A biological hydrogel was self-assembled via Watson-Crick base pairing of thymine and adenine from functionalized star poly(ethylene glycol). Our work should provide a novel methodology to generate robust injectable scaffolds with tailorable properties for biomedical applications.
