Biocompatible Polymers: Structurally Controlled Bio-hybrid Materials Based on Unidirectional Association of Anisotropic Microparticles with Human Endothelial Cells (Adv. Mater. 48/2009).
Biocompatible anisotropic polymer particles with bipolar affinity towards human endothelial cells are a novel type of building blocks for microstructured biohybrid materials, report Joerg Lahann and co-workers on p. 4920. Functional polarity due to two biologically distinct hemispheres has been achieved by synthesis of anisotropic particles via electro-hydrodynamic co-jetting of two different polymer solutions and subsequent selective surface modification.
Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Michigan 3414 GGBL, 2300 Hayward Ann Arbor, MI 4809.
Mutsumi
M
Yoshida
Kyung-Ho
KH
Roh
Suparna
S
Mandal
Srijanani
S
Bhaskar
Dongwoo
D
Lim
Himabindu
H
Nandivada
Xiaopei
X
Deng
Joerg
J
Lahann
Bicompartmental particles; Biomaterials; Hybrid materials; Polymer particles