Controlled Cell Growth and Cell Migration in Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica/Alginate Nanocomposite Hydrogels
Nermin Seda Kehr1, Kristina Riehemann1
1Physikalisches Institut and CeNTech, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Heisenbergstraße 11, D-48149, Münster, Germany.
Advanced Healthcare Materials
|December 10, 2015
Abstract:
Nanocomposite (NC) hydrogels with different periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) concentrations and a NC hydrogel bilayer with various PMO concentrations inside the layers of the hydrogel matrix are prepared. The effect of the PMO concentration on cell growth and migration of cells is reported. The cells migrate in the bilayer NC hydrogel towards higher PMO concentrations and from cell culture plates to NC hydrogel scaffolds.
