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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
Queen Mary University of London : B - Materials
Microfluidic Fabrication of Self-Assembled Peptide-Polysaccharide Microcapsules as 3D Environments for Cell Culture
This paper describes the use of microfluidics to realize mono-dispersed spherical microcapsules with nanofibrillar structure resulting from the self-assembly between a multi-domain peptide with the anionic polysaccharide xanthan. This work provides a contribution to the field of directed self-assembly as it demonstrates the use of geometric confinement (microchannels) to guide the process of self-assembly. The work was also selected for an oral communication at the annual meeting of the European Chapter of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (Granada, Spain, 2011), being presented in invited talks (University of Porto, Portugal; AO Research Institute Davos, Switzerland).
