Shrink‐Film Configurable Multiscale Wrinkles for Functional Alignment of Human Embryonic Stem Cells and their Cardiac Derivatives

Aaron Chen, Deborah K. Lieu, Lauren R. Freschauf, Valerie Lew, Himanshu Sharma, Jiaxian Wang, Diep Nguyen, Ioannis Karakikes, Roger J. Hajjar, Ajay Gopinathan,

Advanced Materials · 2011 · 122 citations · 30 references

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A biomimetic substrate for cell-culture is fabricated by plasma treatment of a prestressed thermoplastic shrink film to create tunable multiscaled alignment “wrinkles”. Using this substrate, the functional alignment of human embryonic stem cell derived cardiomyocytes is demonstrated. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.

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