Flexible fabrication of biomimetic bamboo-like hybrid microfibers.
Biomimetic and flexible bamboo-like hybrid fibers are produced using a novel one-step strategy. By combining a droplet microfluidic technique with a wet-spinning process, biocompatible microfibers are incorporated with polymer spheres or multicellular spheroids. As a result of the controllability of this approach, it has potential applications in materials science and tissue engineering.
Division of Biotechnology, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, Dalian, 116023, China.
Yue
Y
Yu
Hui
H
Wen
Jingyun
J
Ma
Simon
S
Lykkemark
Hui
H
Xu
Jianhua
J
Qin
D000464:Alginates / Q000737:chemistry*; D040761:Biomimetic Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D004867:Equipment Design; D020723:Glucuronic Acid / Q000737:chemistry; D006603:Hexuronic Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006109:Poaceae
D000464:Alginates; D006603:Hexuronic Acids; D020723:Glucuronic Acid
biomedical applications; biomimetics; droplet microfluidics; encoding; hybrid materials; microfibers