Issue 14, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Design and engineering of silk fibroin scaffolds with biomimetic hierarchical structures†

Hui Wang,ab   Xiang Yang Liu,*ad   Yon Jin Chuah,c   James C. H. Goh,c   Jing Liang Lia  and  Hongyao Xud  

* Corresponding authors

a College of Materials, Xiamen University, China, Singapore
E-mail: phyliuxy@nus.edu.sg
Tel: +65 6516 2812

b National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China

c Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National University of Singapore, Singapore

d College of Material Science and Engineering & State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai, China

Abstract

Silk scaffolds having biomimetic hierarchical porous structures were achieved by carefully tuning liquid–liquid separation in regenerated silk fibroin solutions. Such scaffolds show greatly enhanced cellular responses.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC38779D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
24 Sep 2012
Accepted
18 Dec 2012
First published
19 Dec 2012

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 1431-1433

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Design and engineering of silk fibroin scaffolds with biomimetic hierarchical structures

H. Wang, X. Y. Liu, Y. J. Chuah, J. C. H. Goh, J. L. Li and H. Xu, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 1431 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC38779D

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