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Polymers flex their muscles

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 932–933 (2008)Cite this article

Accordion-like honeycomb scaffolds support the formation of anisotropically contracting heart tissue in vitro, opening up possibilities in the area of cardiac tissue repair.

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Figure 1: The bilaminar PGS scaffold with an interconnected network of pores is suitable for the culture of neonatal rat heart cells.

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