[HTML][HTML] A practical guide to microfabrication and patterning of hydrogels for biomimetic cell culture scaffolds

M Tenje, F Cantoni, AMP Hernández, SS Searle… - Organs-on-a-Chip, 2020 - Elsevier
This review article describes microfabrication techniques to define chemical, mechanical
and structural patterns in hydrogels and how these can be used to prepare in vivo like, ie …

Surface patterning of hydrogel biomaterials to probe and direct cell–matrix interactions

BG Munoz‐Robles, I Kopyeva… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their mechanical and structural similarity to native tissues, hydrogel biomaterials
have gained tremendous popularity for applications in 3D tissue culture, therapeutic …

Wirelessly powered 3D printed hierarchical biohybrid robots with multiscale mechanical properties

H Tetsuka, L Pirrami, T Wang… - Advanced functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of flexible and stretchable electronics into biohybrid soft robotics can spur
the development of new approaches for fabricating biohybrid soft machines, thus enabling a …

Advances in microfabrication technologies in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

S Nadine, A Chung, SE Diltemiz, B Yasuda… - Artificial …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Tissue engineering provides various strategies to fabricate an appropriate
microenvironment to support the repair and regeneration of lost or damaged tissues. In this …

Recent advances in cardiac tissue engineering for the management of myocardium infarction

V Sharma, SK Dash, K Govarthanan, R Gahtori, N Negi… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Myocardium Infarction (MI) is one of the foremost cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) causing
death worldwide, and its case numbers are expected to continuously increase in the coming …

Nanometer-scale patterning of hard and soft interfaces: From photolithography to molecular-scale design

A Singh, A Shi, SA Claridge - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Many areas of modern materials chemistry, from nanoscale electronics to regenerative
medicine, require design of precisely-controlled chemical environments at near-molecular …

Long-range organization of intestinal 2D-crypts using exogenous Wnt3a micropatterning

E Larrañaga, M Marin-Riera, A Abad-Lázaro… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Intestinal epithelial cells are segregated into proliferative crypts and differentiated regions.
This organization relies on specific signals, including Wnt3a, which regulates cell …

Biomimetic cardiovascular platforms for in vitro disease modeling and therapeutic validation

R Portillo-Lara, AR Spencer, BW Walker, ES Sani… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Bioengineered tissues have become increasingly more sophisticated owing to recent
advancements in the fields of biomaterials, microfabrication, microfluidics, genetic …

Microcontact printing of polydopamine on thermally expandable hydrogels for controlled cell adhesion and delivery of geometrically defined microtissues

YB Lee, SJ Kim, EM Kim, H Byun, HK Chang, J Park… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Scaffold-free harvest of microtissue with a defined structure has received a great deal of
interest in cell-based assay and regenerative medicine. In this study, we developed …

Astrocytes alignment and reactivity on collagen hydrogels patterned with ECM proteins

TW Hsiao, PA Tresco, V Hlady - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
To modulate the surface properties of collagen and subsequent cell–surface interactions, a
method was developed to transfer protein patterns from glass coverslips to collagen type I …