Hybrid hydrogel-carbon nanotubes materials with controllable electrical and mechanical properties to fabricate biological tissues

06/26/2013

Hybrid hydrogel-carbon nanotubes materials with controllable electrical and mechanical properties to fabricate biological tissues

Summary

A research group of Tohoku University consisting of Dr. Ramon-Azcon, Dr. Ahadian, Dr. Khademhosseini, and Dr. Matsue and their colleagues succeeded in making engineered muscle tissues using hybrid hydrogel-carbon nanotubes (CNTs) scaffolds that showed a few ordered of magnitude higher maturation and physiological activities than commonly used scaffolds. Hybrid hydrogel-CNTs scaffolds may have other potential applications in biosensing, bio-robotics, and bioelectronics.

Article Information

Javier Ramón-Azcón, Samad Ahadian, Mehdi Estili, Xiaobin Liang, Serge Ostrovidov, Hirokazu Kaji, Hitoshi Shiku, Murugan Ramalingam, Ken Nakajima,Yoshio Sakka, Ali Khademhosseini, and Tomokazu Matsue, "Dielectrophoretically aligned carbon nanotubes to control electrical and mechanical properties of hydrogels to fabricate contractile muscle myofibers" Advanced Materials (2013)

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Tomokazu Matsue
Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University

TEL : +81-22-795-7209
E-MAIL : matsue@bioinfo.che.tohoku.ac.jp

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Yasufumi Nakamichi
Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University

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