Hydrogels nanostructured

Jayawarna V, Ah M, Jowitt TA, Miller AF, Saiani A, Gough JE, Ulijn RV (2006) Nanostructured hydrogels for three-dimensional cell culture through self-assembly of fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-dipeptides. Adv Mater 18 611-614... 

Thornton K, Smith AM, Merry CLR, Ulijn RV (2009) Controlling stiffness in nanostructured hydrogels produced by enzymatic dephosphorylation. Biochem Soc Trans 37 660-664... 

FIGURE 54.27 Macro-CTAs and schematic representation of the RAFT precipitation polymerization process. (Reprinted with permission from J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129(46), An, Z., Shi, Q., Tang, W., Tsung, C.K., Hawker, C.J., and Stucky, G.D., Facile RAFT precipitation polymerization for the microwave-assisted synthesis of well-defined, double hydrophilic block copolymers and nanostructured hydrogels, 14493. Copyright 2007 American Chemical Society.)... 

Chung, H. J. Park, T. G., Self-assembled and nanostructured hydrogels for drag delivery and tissue engineering. Nano Today 2009, 4, (5), 429-437. 

Zhang LJ, Ramsaywack S, Fenniri H, Webster TJ. Enhanced osteoblast adhesion on self-assembled nanostructured hydrogel scaffolds. Tissue Eng Pt A 2008 14 1353-64. 

Control over the stmcturation process permits not only the modification of the dimensions of a particular morphology but also order-order transitions between two different microphases. Equally, these transitions can be accompanied by macrophase separation, thus leading to hierarchically structured surfaces. Finally, this chapter analyzes the role of BCP blends in a few selected examples. Surface patterning, the elaboration of ACs or nanostructured hydrogels, or the fabrication of sophisticated stimuli-responsive surfaces are a few of the applications that currently take advantage of these polymeric systems. 

V.F. Scalfani, T.S. Bailey, Access to nanostructured hydrogel networks through pho-tocured body-centered cubic block copolymer melts. Macromolecules 44 (2011) 6557-6567. 

Jayawama, V., Ali, M., Jowitt, T.A., Miller, A.F., Saiani, A., Gough, J.E., et al., 2006. Nanostructured hydrogels for three-dimensional cell cnlture throngh self-assemhly of fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-dipeptides. Adv. Mater. 18, 611-614. 

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