Journal
BIOMACROMOLECULES
Volume 20, Issue 7, Pages 2666-2674Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.9b00433
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- Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
- University of Stuttgart within the Projekthaus NanoBioMater
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In this study, we present a fast and convenient liquid foam templating route to generate gelatin methacryloyl (GM) foams. Microfluidic bubbling was used to generate monodisperse liquid foams with bubble sizes ranging from 220 to 390 mu m. The continuous phase contained 20 wt % GM and 0.7 wt % lithium phenyl-2,4,6-trimethylbenzoylphosphinate as photoinitiator. Gelation was achieved via UV-initiated radical cross-linking of GM. After cross-linking, the hydrogel foams were either swollen in water or freeze-dried. The pore sizes of the dry foams were 15-20% smaller than the bubble sizes of the liquid templates, whereas the pore sizes of the swollen porous hydrogels were in the range of the bubble sizes of the liquid templates. Compared to commonly used methods for the fabrication of biopolymer scaffolds, our route neither involves cryogenic treatment nor toxic chemicals or organic solvents and potentially allows for the photoencapsulation of cells.
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