Sugar glass fugitive ink loaded with calcium chloride for the rapid casting of alginate scaffold designs

Alginate-based hydrogels are widely used for the development of biomedical scaffolds in regenerative medicine. The use of sugar glass as a sacrificial template for fluidic channels fabrication within alginate scaffolds remains a challenge because of the premature dissolution of sugar by the water co...

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Main Authors: Gabrielle Gauvin-Rossignol, Philippe Legros, Jean Ruel, Marc-André Fortin, André Bégin-Drolet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-07-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018305346