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SUBMITTER: Nojoomi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6135848 | biostudies-other | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nojoomi Amirali A Arslan Hakan H Lee Kwan K Yum Kyungsuk K
Nature communications 20180912 1
Living organisms use spatially controlled expansion and contraction of soft tissues to achieve complex three-dimensional (3D) morphologies and movements and thereby functions. However, replicating such features in man-made materials remains a challenge. Here we report an approach that encodes 2D hydrogels with spatially and temporally controlled growth (expansion and contraction) to create 3D structures with programmed morphologies and motions. This approach uses temperature-responsive hydrogels ...[more]