Synthetic polymers with biological rigidity

Margaret Lise Gardel ()
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Margaret Lise Gardel: Margaret Lise Gardel is at the Gordon Center for Integrated Science, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.

Nature, 2013, vol. 493, issue 7434, 619-619

Abstract: Brush-like polymers with a rigidity similar to that of polymers in living cells have been synthesized and used to build force-responsive materials. The advance opens the door to applications in drug delivery and tissue engineering. See Letter p.651

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1038/nature11855

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