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Noodle gels for cells

Nature Materials volume 9, pages 535–536 (2010)Cite this article

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Heating and cooling of peptide amphiphile suspensions converts disorganized nanofibres into liquid-crystalline nanofibre bundles that gel on addition of salts. The noodle-shaped strings of gel can entrap and align cells.

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Figure 1: A schematic of cell growth on synthetic engineered scaffolds made by different routes.
Figure 2: A schematic of the thermal process to form liquid-crystalline nanofibre bundles.

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  1. Timothy J. Deming is in the Department of Bioengineering, 5121 Engineering 5, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. demingt@seas.ucla.edu,

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