@inproceedings{0ba1dfa5bd41411182ade92fde19f831,
title = "Knitting hydrogel microfibers: A method to fabricate 3D hydrogel microstructures containing biomaterials",
abstract = "This paper describes a method to knit biomaterial-containing hydrogel fibers for fabricating 3D hydrogel microstructures. Cell- or bead-containing alginate hydrogel microfibers (30-95 {"}m in diameter) were generated with a coaxial laminar flow microfluidic device. We manually handled these microfibers in a liquid using a fiber clamp mechanism, and succeeded to knit them to form a complex woven structure such as braid composed of three different bead-containing gel fibers.",
keywords = "3D microstructure, Biomaterial, Cell, Hydrogel fibers, Knit",
author = "Hiroaki Onoe and Shoji Takeuchi",
year = "2009",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780979806421",
series = "Proceedings of Conference, MicroTAS 2009 - The 13th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences",
publisher = "Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society",
pages = "1871--1873",
booktitle = "Proceedings of Conference, MicroTAS 2009 - The 13th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences",
note = "13th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2009 ; Conference date: 01-11-2009 Through 05-11-2009",
}