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Tissue Engineering: Superaligned Carbon Nanotubes Guide Oriented Cell Growth and Promote Electrophysiological Homogeneity for Synthetic Cardiac Tissues (Adv. Mater. 44/2017)
Author(s) -
Ren Jing,
Xu Quanfu,
Chen Xiaomeng,
Li Wei,
Guo Kai,
Zhao Yang,
Wang Qian,
Zhang Zhitao,
Peng Huisheng,
Li YiGang
Publication year - 2017
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.201770321
Subject(s) - materials science , carbon nanotube , electrophysiology , cardiac cell , nanotechnology , extracellular , cell culture , tissue engineering , in vitro , biophysics , cell , biomedical engineering , microbiology and biotechnology , neuroscience , biology , medicine , biochemistry , genetics
Superaligned carbon‐nanotube sheets are explored by Huisheng Peng, Yi‐Gang Li, and co‐workers in article number 1702713 to culture cardiomyocytes in vitro. In addition to an induced elongated and aligned cell morphology, they provide an efficient extracellular signal‐transmission pathway and the reduced electrophysiological heterogeneity required for regular and synchronous cell contractions, which opens up an approach toward the restoration of cardiac structure and function after myocardial infarctions.