Aligned carbon nanotube-based flexible gel substrates for engineering bio-hybrid tissue actuators.

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Published in Adv Funct Mater on June 12, 2015

Authors

Su Ryon Shin1, Courtney Shin2, Adnan Memic3, Samaneh Shadmehr4, Mario Miscuglio2, Hyun Young Jung5, Sung Mi Jung6, Hojae Bae7, Ali Khademhosseini8, Xiaowu Shirley Tang4, Mehmet R Dokmeci1

Author Affiliations

1: Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02139, USA. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
2: Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02139, USA. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
3: Center of Nanotechnology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia.
4: Department of Chemistry & Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada.
5: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
6: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
7: College of Animal Bioscience and Technology, Department of Bioindustrial Technologies, Konkuk University, Hwayang-dong, Kwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-701, Korea.
8: Biomaterials Innovation Research Center, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02139, USA. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Department of Physics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21569, Saudi Arabia. Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Department of Maxillofacial Biomedical Engineering and Institute of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea.

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