Issue 83, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Biological self-assembly of injectable hydrogel as cell scaffold via specific nucleobase pairing†

Huaping Tan,*a   Chao Xiao,a   Jinchen Sun,a   Dangsheng Xionga  and  Xiaohong Hub  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
E-mail: hptan@njust.edu.cn

b School of Material Engineering, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211169, China

Abstract

A biological hydrogel was self-assembled via Watson–Crick base pairing of thymine and adenine from functionalized star poly(ethylene glycol). Our work should provide a novel methodology to generate robust injectable scaffolds with tailorable properties for biomedical applications.

Graphical abstract: Biological self-assembly of injectable hydrogel as cell scaffold via specific nucleobase pairing

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC35449G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
27 Jul 2012
Accepted
30 Aug 2012
First published
31 Aug 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 10289-10291

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Biological self-assembly of injectable hydrogel as cell scaffold via specific nucleobase pairing

H. Tan, C. Xiao, J. Sun, D. Xiong and X. Hu, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 10289 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35449G

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