A facile method to fabricate versatile keratin cryogels for tissue engineering applications

• Main Authors: Zhao, Zhitong, Chua, Huei Min, Lai, Hui Ying, Ng, Kee Woei
• 其他作者: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2024
• 主題: Engineering; Human hair keratin; Oxidative dopamine; Cryogels; Tuneable mechanical properties; Sustainable biomaterials
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174867
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Human hair keratin (HHK) has been extensively explored as a biomaterial for soft tissue regeneration due to their excellent bioactivity and biocompatibility. The possibility to fabricate HHK into three-dimensional (3D) hydrogels with physical properties resembling soft tissues has been well demonstr...