Anisotropic material synthesis by capillary flow in a fluid stripe.

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Published in Biomaterials on September 01, 2011

Authors

Matthew J Hancock1, Francesco Piraino, Gulden Camci-Unal, Marco Rasponi, Ali Khademhosseini

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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