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Tissue Engineering: Effective Light Directed Assembly of Building Blocks with Microscale Control (Small 24/2017)
Author(s) -
Dinh NgocDuy,
Luo Rongcong,
Christine Maria Tankeh Asuncion,
Lin Weikang Nicholas,
Shih WeiChuan,
Goh James ChoHong,
Chen ChiaHung
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201770134
Subject(s) - microscale chemistry , biofabrication , fluidics , nanotechnology , materials science , microfluidics , nanorod , photothermal therapy , self healing hydrogels , tissue engineering , biomedical engineering , engineering , mathematics education , mathematics , aerospace engineering , polymer chemistry
In article number 1700684 , Chia‐Hung Chen, and co‐workers, introduce a novel light assembly method on the microscale by suspending gold nanorods (GNRs), as photothermal transducers, in a fluidic medium to induce thermoplasmonic convections for the assembly. The assembly of hydrogel microparticles, cell‐laden microgels and microtissues to form desirable patterns is demonstrated. This method can revolutionize current biofabrication processes that otherwise would have been difficult to achieve using 3D printing and other assembly technologies.