Robust Anisotropic Cellulose Hydrogels Fabricated via Strong Self-aggregation Forces for Cardiomyocytes Unidirectional Growth

• Published in: Chemistry of materials Vol. 30; no. 15; pp. 5175 - 5183
• Main Authors: Ye, Dongdong, Yang, Pengcheng, Lei, Xiaojuan, Zhang, Donghui, Li, Liangbin, Chang, Chunyu, Sun, Pingchuan, Zhang, Lina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 14.08.2018

The development of a facile and fast method to construct anisotropic hydrogels with the ability to induce unidirectional growth of cells remains challenging. In this work, we demonstrated anisotropic cellulose hydrogels (ACHs) that are composed of nanoscale aligned nanofibers by dissolving cotton li...