Abstract
The adhesion of hydrogels has attracted substantial attention for use in building three-dimensional constructs such as scaffolds for cell culture, carriers of drug release system and soft actuators. This review article summarizes our group's research on electrophoretic hydrogel adhesion, a novel strategy for the adhesion of hydrogels. This technique involves the electrophoretic manipulation of a polyelectrolyte to form an adhesive layer at the interface of the two hydrogels and is a powerful method for fabrication of free-form hydrogel constructs through the adhesion of microgels.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1095-1101 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Polymer Journal |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2016 |