Controlled collagen assembly to build dense tissue-like materials for tissue engineering
Abstract
Intermediate states of matter, in the form of liquid crystals, are indirectly evidenced in the body. Hence concepts developed by the soft matter community have allowed the highlighting of original morphogenetic pathways, strongly suggesting how 3D structures arise at the tissue level. The clues proposed have opened the way to reproduce biomimetic, hierarchically ordered, assemblies of biological
- This article is part of the themed collection: Biomimetic soft matter