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Reactive inkjet printing of calcium alginate hydrogel porogens—a new strategy to open-pore structured matrices with controlled geometry

Source: Soft Matter 6, 866 (2010); doi:10.1039/b922888h

Issue Date: 8 March 2010

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ISSN:
1553-9644 (online)
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Joseph T. Delaney
Eindhoven University of Technology, Laboratory of Macromolecular Chemistry and Nanoscience, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Albert R. Liberski


Jolke Perelaer


Ulrich S. Schubert

Taking advantage of inkjet's ability to dispense uniform droplets in the picolitre/nanolitre ranges of volumes, we have generated reversible hydrogel porogen beads using reactive printing, which we use as templates for creating networks of pores with monomodally distributed pore sizes. ©2010
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