Invention Application
- Patent Title: Sacrificial Templates Comprising a Hydrogel Cross-linking Agent and Their Use for Customization of Hydrogel Architecture
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Application No.: US14961033Application Date: 2015-12-07
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Publication No.: US20170157802A1Publication Date: 2017-06-08
- Inventor: Randolph Scott Ashton , Jason David McNulty , Carlos Ruben Marti-Figueroa , Lih-Sheng Turng
- Applicant: Randolph Scott Ashton , Jason David McNulty , Carlos Ruben Marti-Figueroa , Lih-Sheng Turng
- Main IPC: B29C33/52
- IPC: B29C33/52 ; A61L27/52 ; C08J3/075 ; C08J9/26 ; B29C33/38 ; C08J9/00 ; A61L27/56 ; A61L27/58 ; B29C39/02 ; B29C33/44 ; A61L27/20 ; C08J3/24
Abstract:
Described herein are sacrificial templates generated from water soluble thermoplastic-divalent cation-composite materials, such as poly(vinyl alcohol)-calcium. Also described herein are methods for the use of such sacrificial templates in casting of precise internal space microarchitectures within hydrogels, such as microchannel networks within alginate hydrogels.
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