A mussel inspired self-expandable tubular hydrogel with shape memory under NIR for potential biomedical applications

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A mussel inspired self-expandable tubular hydrogel with shape memory under NIR for potential biomedical applications

Chan Hee Park, Cheol Sang Kim, Francis O. Obiweluozor, Jinwoo Kim, Bikendra Maharjan, Amin GhavamiNejad

We engineered a novel shape memory polymer (SMP), a nanocomposite hydrogel containing polydopamine nanospheres (PDNs) as a self-expandable tubular hydrogel under near infrared (NIR) irradiation.

Publisher URL: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2017/TB/C7TB00539C

DOI: 2017/TB/C7TB00539C

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