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Volume 6 Issue 2, February 2007

3D woven scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering.

Cover design by David Shand

Article by Franklin T. Moutos et al.

Volume 6 Issue 2

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  • As the European Union embraces new members, the growth of European science requires effort on various fronts.

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  • Despite great expectations, artificial cartilage constructs still represent a challenge for tissue engineers. A three-dimensional fibre–hydrogel material provides a breathrough in the design of scaffolds with mechanical properties that match those of native cartilage.

    • Gerard A. Ateshian
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  • Over the past two decades, the optical recording industry has empirically improved the properties of phase-change materials for rewritable discs. Now a first step has been taken to use computational design to improve these materials.

    • Friso Jedema
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  • Entanglement of interpenetrating metal–organic frameworks has been considered a drawback to porosity. However, the pore size of these structures can be controlled through framework dynamics to achieve selectivity and increased binding of ions and gases.

    • Omar M. Yaghi
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  • Soft matter has the remarkable ability to respond to stimuli in a variety of ways. Not only does this enable its application to existing scientific problems, but it also allows previously unimagined technological directions to be explored.

    • Patrick T. Mather
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  • Exploiting the interplay between entropic and enthalpic contributions in block copolymer–nanoparticle blends permits construction of composites with specified structures. Disassembly can then provide well-defined structural units as building blocks for future applications.

    • Anna C. Balazs
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