title: Highly Ordered 1D Fullerene Crystals for Concurrent Control of Macroscopic Cellular Orientation and Differentiation toward Large-Scale Tissue Engineering.
abstract: A highly aligned 1D fullerene whisker (FW) scaffold in a centimeter area is fabricated by interfacial alignment. The resulting aligned FW scaffold enables concurrent control over cellular orientation and differentiation to muscle cells. This aligned FW scaffold is made by a facile method, and hence the substrate is a promising alternative to other cell scaffolds for tissue engineering.
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Kosuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Minami
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.|Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan.
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kasuya
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomohiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Qingmin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Waka
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.|Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0076, Japan.
authors.forename: Jonathan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan.
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.affiliation: World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan.|Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0076, Japan.
authors.forename: Katsuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ariga
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000502:physiology*; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology*; D002460:Cell Line; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000502:physiology; D037741:Fullerenes / Q000737:chemistry; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D051379:Mice; D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D032446:Myoblasts / Q000502:physiology*; D018995:Myosin Heavy Chains / Q000378:metabolism; D061848:Optical Imaging; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D054457:Tissue Scaffolds / Q000737:chemistry; D016596:Vinculin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D037741:Fullerenes; D016596:Vinculin; D018995:Myosin Heavy Chains
keywords: cell scaffolds; fullerene; micropatterning; tissue engineering