Premium
Highly Ordered 1D Fullerene Crystals for Concurrent Control of Macroscopic Cellular Orientation and Differentiation toward Large‐Scale Tissue Engineering
Author(s) -
Minami Kosuke,
Kasuya Yuki,
Yamazaki Tomohiko,
Ji Qingmin,
Nakanishi Waka,
Hill Jonathan P.,
Sakai Hideki,
Ariga Katsuhiko
Publication year - 2015
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.201501690
Subject(s) - materials science , scaffold , whisker , tissue engineering , substrate (aquarium) , nanotechnology , fullerene , orientation (vector space) , biomedical engineering , composite material , chemistry , geometry , mathematics , organic chemistry , oceanography , geology , medicine
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.