title: Highly Flexible and Resilient Elastin Hybrid Cryogels with Shape Memory, Injectability, Conductivity, and Magnetic Responsive Properties.
abstract: A strategy utilizing elastin peptide macroporous cryogels to build highly flexible scaffolds to load carbon nanotubes, polypyrrole, and iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles, is presented. This combines high elasticity, flexibility, shape memory property, and injectable property together with conductivity and/or magnetic responsive property. The network can afford 97.5% compressive strain with an excellent conductivity of 50.1 ± 2.9 S cm(-1) at 90% strain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada.|The Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P4, Canada.
authors.forename: Yuqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada.|The Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P4, Canada.
authors.forename: Kaige
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada.|The Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P4, Canada.
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada.|The Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P4, Canada.
authors.forename: Mohammad Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Darabi
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada.|The Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P4, Canada.
authors.forename: Bojie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada. malcolm.xing@umanitoba.ca.|The Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P4, Canada. malcolm.xing@umanitoba.ca.
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xing
keywords: conductivity; cryogels; elastin peptides; high resilience; injectables; magnetic responsiveness