Versatile fabrication of size-and shape-controllable nanofibrous concave microwells for cell spheroid formation

SM Park, SJ Lee, J Lim, BC Kim, SJ Han… - ACS applied materials …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Although the microfabrication techniques for microwells enabled to guide physiologically
relevant three-dimensional cell spheroid formation, there have been substantial interests to …

A deep and permeable nanofibrous oval-shaped microwell array for the stable formation of viable and functional spheroids

D Kim, SJ Lee, J Youn, H Hong, S Eom, DS Kim - Biofabrication, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite the potential of a nanofibrous (NF) microwell array as a permeable microwell array
to improve the viability and functions of spheroids, thanks to the superior permeability to both …

Microfluidic production of cell-laden microspheroidal hydrogels with different geometric shapes

Y Tian, EA Lipke - ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2020 - ACS Publications
Providing control over the geometric shape of cell-laden hydrogel microspheroids, such as
diameter and axial ratio, is critical for their use in biomedical applications. Building on our …

Magnetic force-assisted self-locking metallic bead array for fabrication of diverse concave microwell geometries

GH Lee, YE Park, M Cho, H Park, JY Park - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Spheroid cell culture is very useful for further understanding cellular behavior including
motility and biochemical reaction since it mimics three-dimensional (3D) in vivo organ tissue …

Networked concave microwell arrays for constructing 3D cell spheroids

GH Lee, JS Lee, GH Lee, WY Joung, SH Kim… - …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The engineered three-dimensional (3D) cell cultivation system for the production of
multicellular spheroids has attracted considerable attention due to its improved in vivo …

A novel cylindrical microwell featuring inverted-pyramidal opening for efficient cell spheroid formation without cell loss

JM Cha, HD Park, EK Shin, JH Sung, O Kim… - …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Spheroid cultures have been often used to simulate and understand in situ biological
occurrences with potential to be further applied to therapeutic approaches, such as cell …

Fabrication of concave microwells and their applications in micro-tissue engineering: A review

W Guo, Z Chen, Z Feng, H Li, M Zhang, H Zhang, X Cui - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
At present, there is an increasing need to mimic the in vivo micro-environment in the culture
of cells and tissues in micro-tissue engineering. Concave microwells are becoming …

Off-the-shelf microsponge arrays for facile and efficient construction of miniaturized 3D cellular microenvironments for versatile cell-based assays

S Zhao, H Zhao, X Zhang, Y Li, Y Du - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The integration of microfabrication and biomaterials enables construction of miniaturized 3D
microenvironments with biomimetic micro-architectural and functional features to advance …

A microfluidic chip with a U-shaped microstructure array for multicellular spheroid formation, culturing and analysis

CY Fu, SY Tseng, SM Yang, L Hsu, CH Liu… - …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Multicellular spheroids (MCS), formed by self-assembly of single cells, are commonly used
as a three-dimensional cell culture model to bridge the gap between in vitro monolayer …

Spheroids-on-a-chip: Recent advances and design considerations in microfluidic platforms for spheroid formation and culture

K Moshksayan, N Kashaninejad, ME Warkiani… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2018 - Elsevier
A cell spheroid is a three-dimensional (3D) aggregation of cells. Synthetic, in-vitro spheroids
provide similar metabolism, proliferation, and species concentration gradients to those found …