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Super‐Soft Hydrogel Particles with Tunable Elasticity in a Microfluidic Blood Capillary Model
Author(s) -
Cui Jiwei,
Björnmalm Mattias,
Liang Kang,
Xu Chenglong,
Best James P.,
Zhang Xuehua,
Caruso Frank
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201402753
Subject(s) - elasticity (physics) , materials science , microfluidics , nanotechnology , capillary action , mesoporous silica , nonlinear elasticity , computer science , mesoporous material , composite material , chemistry , biochemistry , catalysis , physics , nonlinear system , quantum mechanics
Super‐soft PEG hydrogel particles with tunable elasticity are prepared via a mesoporous silica templating method. The deformability behavior of these particles, in a microfluidic blood‐capillary model, can be tailored to be similar to that of human red blood cells. These results provide a new platform for the design and development of soft hydrogel particles for investigating bio‐nano interactions.