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Ophthalmic contact lens with a compressible affinity matrix
Philippe Renaud, Thomas Michael Braschler, Amélie Barbara Hildegarde Béduer
The invention relates to a contact lens for use in the treatment of ocular inflammatory pathologies. The contact lens comprises a soft porous material coupled, in certain embodiments, with detoxifying agents. Said material and/or agents contact and neutral ...
2016Bio-engineered collagen-fibrin scaffolds for enhancing urological tissue regeneration
Urological tissue engineering offers alternative solutions for congenital and acquired diseases of the urinary tract, which may require reconstructive surgery. It evolves to overcome complications, which might be encountered after surgery. Therefore, tissu ...
EPFL2015Crystalline Oligo(ethylene sulfide) Domains Define Highly Stable Supramolecular Block Copolymer Assemblies
Davide Demurtas, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Edward Allen Phelps, Carrie Ellen Brubaker
With proper control over copolymer design and solvation conditions, self-assembled materials display impressive morphological variety that encompasses nanoscale colloids as well as bulk three-dimensional architectures. Here we take advantage of both hydrop ...
Amer Chemical Soc2015Influence of silica fume on the microstructure of cement pastes: New insights from H-1 NMR relaxometry
Karen Scrivener, Arnaud Charles Albert Muller
H-1 NMR has been used to characterise white Portland cement paste incorporating 10 wt.% of silica fume. Samples were measured sealed throughout the hydration without sample drying. Paste compositions and C-S-H characteristics are calculated based on H-1 NM ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015Granulation and bistability in non-Brownian suspensions
In granulation, a dense colloidal suspension is converted into pasty lumps by application of flow. Often, such lumps are bistable: each can exist either as a fluid droplet (with a shiny surface) or as a jammed granule, whose rough surface creates a bulk st ...
Springer Verlag2014The Nano-Scale Mechanical Properties of the Extracellular Matrix Regulate Dermal Fibroblast Function
Jean-Jacques Meister, Boris Hinz, Lara Buscemi Estefanell, Josiane Angèle Charlotte Smith-Clerc
Changes in the mechanical properties of dermis occur during skin aging or tissue remodeling and affect the activity of resident fibroblasts. With the aim to establish elastic culture substrates that reproduce the variable softness of dermis, we determined ...
Nature Publishing Group2014Swimming by reciprocal motion at low Reynolds number
Biological microorganisms swim with flagella and cilia that execute nonreciprocal motions for low Reynolds number (Re) propulsion in viscous fluids. This symmetry requirement is a consequence of Purcell's scallop theorem, which complicates the actuation sc ...
Nature Publishing Group2014Influence Of Processing And Storage On The Shear Thickening Properties Of Highly Concentrated Monodisperse Silica Particles In Polyethylene Glycol
Véronique Michaud, Mathieu Soutrenon
The shear thickening behavior of concentrated suspensions can be exploited to dissipate energy during impact or shear loading. To preserve the consistency of the thickening behavior in practical applications, particle concentration, and dispersion should b ...
Kerschensteiner Verlag Gmbh2013The Mechanical Environment Modulates Intracellular Calcium Oscillation Activities of Myofibroblasts
Boris Hinz, Adriano Garonna, Lysianne Follonier Castella
Myofibroblast contraction is fundamental in the excessive tissue remodeling that is characteristic of fibrotic tissue contractures. Tissue remodeling during development of fibrosis leads to gradually increasing stiffness of the extracellular matrix. We pro ...
Public Library Science2013Encapsulation of Huh-7 cells within alginate-poly(ethylene glycol) hybrid microspheres
Jutta Christine Wandrey, Redouan Mahou
Novel calcium alginate poly(ethylene glycol) hybrid microspheres (Ca-alg-PEG) were developed and evaluated as potentially suitable materials for cell microencapsulation. Grafting 5-13% of the backbone units of sodium alginate (Na-alg) with alpha-amine-omeg ...
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