[HTML][HTML] Advantages and challenges of microfluidic cell culture in polydimethylsiloxane devices

S Halldorsson, E Lucumi, R Gómez-Sjöberg… - Biosensors and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Culture of cells using various microfluidic devices is becoming more common within
experimental cell biology. At the same time, a technological radiation of microfluidic cell …

Shaping Cancer Nanomedicine: The Effect of Particle Shape on The In Vivo Journey of Nanoparticles

R Toy, PM Peiris, KB Ghaghada, E Karathanasis - Nanomedicine, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Recent advances in nanoparticle technology have enabled the fabrication of nanoparticle
classes with unique sizes, shapes and materials, which in turn has facilitated major …

Development of polydimethylsiloxane substrates with tunable elastic modulus to study cell mechanobiology in muscle and nerve

RN Palchesko, L Zhang, Y Sun, AW Feinberg - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Mechanics is an important component in the regulation of cell shape, proliferation, migration
and differentiation during normal homeostasis and disease states. Biomaterials that match …

Tuning surface properties of bone biomaterials to manipulate osteoblastic cell adhesion and the signaling pathways for the enhancement of early osseointegration

S Chen, Y Guo, R Liu, S Wu, J Fang, B Huang… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Osteoblast cell adhesion is the initial step of early osseointegration responding to bone
material implants. Enhancing the osteoblastic cell adhesion has become one of the prime …

Simple surface modification of poly (dimethylsiloxane) via surface segregating smart polymers for biomicrofluidics

A Gökaltun, YB Kang, ML Yarmush, OB Usta… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS) is likely the most popular material for microfluidic
devices in lab-on-a-chip and other biomedical applications. However, the hydrophobicity of …

Surface modification for PDMS‐based microfluidic devices

J Zhou, DA Khodakov, AV Ellis, NH Voelcker - Electrophoresis, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses on advances reported from April 2009 to May 2011 in PDMS surface
modifications for the application in microfluidic devices. PDMS surface modification …

3D printing of PDMS improves its mechanical and cell adhesion properties

V Ozbolat, M Dey, B Ayan, A Povilianskas… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Despite extensive use of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) in medical applications, such as lab-
on-a-chip or tissue/organ-on-a-chip devices, point-of-care devices, and biological machines …

The effects of particle size, density and shape on margination of nanoparticles in microcirculation

R Toy, E Hayden, C Shoup, H Baskaran… - …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
In the recent past, remarkable advances in nanotechnology have generated nanoparticles of
different shapes and sizes, which have been shown to exhibit unique properties suitable for …

Recent advances in nonbiofouling PDMS surface modification strategies applicable to microfluidic technology

A Gokaltun, ML Yarmush, A Asatekin, OB Usta - Technology, 2017 - World Scientific
In the last decade microfabrication processes including rapid prototyping techniques have
advanced rapidly and achieved a fairly mature stage. These advances have encouraged …

Review on rubbers in medicine: Natural, silicone and polyurethane rubbers

A Rahimi, A Mashak - Plastics, rubber and composites, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Natural, silicone and polyurethane rubbers are considered as three important biomaterials
which have found widespread applications in medical technology. Biocompatibility …