Microencapsulation of cells is a promising technique in biomedical applications such as cell therapy. Recently, cell-laden hydrogel microfibers have been proposed as another shape microcapsule instead of microbeads; however, these are brittle with...
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) 480-481 2017年2月 [査読有り]
This paper describes a core-shell hydrogel microfiber consisted of alginate and tetra-arm poly(ethylene glycol) (tetra-PEG) encapsulating rat insulinoma cells using a microfluidic process with a coaxial device and rapid gelation induced by diffusi...
Here we propose a novel electrochemical lithography methodology for fabricating calcium-alginate hydrogels having controlled shapes. We separated the chambers for Ca2+ production and gel formation with alginate with a semipermeable membrane. Ca2+ ...