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Polymer micronetworks with shape-memory as future platform to explore shape-dependent biological effects
Fabian Friess1, Ulrich Nöchel, Andreas Lendlein
1Institute of Biomaterial Science and Berlin-, Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Kantstr. 55, 14513, Teltow, Germany.
Advanced Healthcare Materials
|October 9, 2014
Abstract:
Polymer micronetworks allowing stimuli-induced, predefined, and spatially directed shape shifts. The temperature-induced on-demand switching of shape is introduced as a function of polyester carriers. With their adjustable -switching temperature, micronetworks may serve as a model system to explore static and dynamic shape effects in biological systems.
