Journal article
Hydrogel Particles: Super‐Soft Hydrogel Particles with Tunable Elasticity in a Microfluidic Blood Capillary Model (Adv. Mater. 43/2014)
Jiwei Cui, Mattias Björnmalm, Kang Liang, Chenglong Xu, James P Best, Xuehua Zhang, Frank Caruso
Advanced Materials | Wiley | Published : 2014
Abstract
On page 7295, F. Caruso and co‐workers report a mesoporous silica templating method for preparing super‐soft PEG particles. The elasticity of the particles can be tuned to mimic the deformability behaviour of human red blood cells in a microfluidic blood‐capillary model. These particles provide a new platform for investigating bio‐nano interactions.