Concomitant control of mechanical properties and degradation in resorbable elastomer-like materials using stereochemistry and stoichiometry for soft tissue engineering

The creation of biomaterials which are resorbable and have biomimetic mechanical properties is key to successful tissue engineering. Here the authors report on the creation of a new biopolymer where the mechanical properties can be tuned by changing the ratios of cis:trans double bonds in the backbo...

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Main Authors: Mary Beth Wandel, Craig A. Bell, Jiayi Yu, Maria C. Arno, Nathan Z. Dreger, Yen-Hao Hsu, Anaïs Pitto-Barry, Joshua C. Worch, Andrew P. Dove, Matthew L. Becker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20610-5