Tuning the Cell and Biological Tissue Environment through Magneto-Active Materials
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Abstract
This review focuses on novel applications based on multifunctional materials to actuate biological processes. The first section of the work revisits the current knowledge on mechanically dependent biological processes across several scales from subcellular and cellular level to the cell-collective scale (continuum approaches). This analysis presents a wide variety of mechanically dependent biological processes on nervous system behaviour; bone development and healing; collective cell migration. In the second section, this review presents recent advances in smart materials suitable for use as cell substrates or scaffolds, with a special focus on magneto-active polymers (MAPs). Throughout the manuscript, both experimental and computational methodologies applied to the different treated topics are reviewed. Finally, the use of smart polymeric materials in bioengineering applications is discussed.
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OpenAlex topics: Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications · Micro and Nano Robotics · Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
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Affiliations
Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, Leganes, 28911 Madrid, Spain
Bristol Robotic Lab, University of West England, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, Leganes, 28911 Madrid, Spain
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Calle de O’Donnell, 48, 28009 Madrid, Spain
Funding
Comunidad de Madrid · European Research Council
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