Macroscopic supramolecular assembly of rigid hydrogels assisted by a flexible spacing coating
Guannan Ju1, Qian Zhang, Fengli Guo
1Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials and Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China. chengmj@mail.buct.edu.cn shi@mail.buct.edu.cn.
Journal of Materials Chemistry. B
|April 8, 2020
Abstract:
To address the difficult challenge of realizing macroscopic supramolecular assembly (MSA) of high-modulus hydrogels, we propose a strategy of introducing a flexible spacing coating to improve the surface compliance for efficient MSA, which holds promise to develop versatile MSA methods for fabricating hydrogel-based tissue scaffolds, and to provide insight into the MSA mechanism.
