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4 Citations
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1 December 2025

Recent advances in 3D printing of silica glass have highlighted the limitations of conventional stereolithography (SLA), which requires high-temperature sintering (≈1000 °C) and often uses slurry-based materials. To address these limitation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polymer Microfabrication and 3D/4D Printing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,556 Views
11 Pages

6 May 2023

In the field of quantum technology, there has been a growing interest in fully integrated systems that employ single photons due to their potential for high performance and scalability. Here, a simple method is demonstrated for creating on-chip 3D pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,843 Views
13 Pages

D–π–A–π–D Initiators Based on Benzophenone Conjugate Extension for Two-Photon Polymerization Additive Manufacturing

  • Shanggeng Li,
  • Xiaolin Liu,
  • Shuai Zhang,
  • Yawen Zhou and ,
  • Xiangyu Wan,
  • Ning Li,
  • Jing Li and
  • Lin Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

A two-photon polymerization initiator is a kind of nonlinear optical material. With the demand for more efficient initiators in two-photon polymerization additive manufacturing, there are more and more related studies. In this paper, four conjugate-e...

(This article belongs to the Topic Optical and Optoelectronic Materials and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,902 Views
19 Pages

23 January 2024

This study explores the potential of laser-induced nano-photon-poration as a non-invasive technique for the intracellular delivery of micro/macromolecules at the single-cell level. This research proposes the utilization of gold-coated spiky polymeric...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biosensors for Biomedical and Environmental Applications, Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,149 Views
9 Pages

Polymeric Micelle of A3B-Type Lactosome as a Vehicle for Targeting Meningeal Dissemination

  • Kensuke Kurihara,
  • Motoki Ueda,
  • Isao Hara,
  • Eiichi Ozeki and ,
  • Kaori Togashi and
  • Shunsaku Kimura
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 January 2018

Polymeric micelle of the A3B-type lactosome comprising (poly(sarcosine))3-b-poly(l-lactic acid) was labeled with 111In. The 111In-labeled A3B-type lactosome was administered to the model mice bearing meningeal dissemination and bone metastasis at man...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanomaterials for Imaging, Diagnosis or Therapy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,876 Views
14 Pages

Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Dual-Modality Glyco-Nanoparticles for Tumor Imaging

  • Hua Zhu,
  • Jun Zhao,
  • Xinfeng Lin,
  • Ye Hong and ,
  • Chun Li and
  • Zhi Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 May 2013

d-Glucosamine (DG) was conjugated to a core-cross linked polymeric micelle (CCPM) system equipped with both a near-infrared fluorophore (NIRF) and a gamma emitter (111In). The resultant nano-scale tumor-targeting imaging tracer, 111In-DG-NIRF-CCPM, s...

(This article belongs to the Section Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,910 Views
27 Pages

22 June 2021

Laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT) and two-photon polymerization (TPP) have proven their abilities to produce 3D complex microstructures at an extraordinary level of sophistication. Indeed, LIFT and TPP have supported the vision of providing a who...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,026 Views
16 Pages

Process Development for Additive Manufacturing of Alumina Toughened Zirconia for 3D Structures by Means of Two-Photon Absorption Technique

  • Gerhard Hildebrand,
  • Johanna C. Sänger,
  • Uwe Schirmer,
  • Willi Mantei and ,
  • Yannick Dupuis,
  • Ruth Houbertz and
  • Klaus Liefeith
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 May 2021

Additive manufacturing is well established for plastics and metals, and it gets more and more implemented in a variety of industrial processes. Beside these well-established material platforms, additive manufacturing processes are highly interesting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,497 Views
10 Pages

Photonic Crystals Fabricated by Two-Photon Polymerization with Mechanical Defects

  • Victoria Paige Stinson,
  • Nuren Shuchi,
  • Dustin Louisos,
  • Micheal McLamb and ,
  • Glenn D. Boreman and
  • Tino Hofmann
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 April 2023

One-dimensional photonic crystals have been used in sensing applications for decades, due to their ability to induce highly reflective photonic bandgaps. In this study, one-dimensional photonic crystals with alternating low- and high-density layers w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Opto-Thermo-Mechanical Interactions in Nano-Objects and Metasurfaces)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,799 Views
8 Pages

23 February 2016

Laser-induced cross-linking in polymeric semiconductors was utilized to achieve micro- and nano-structuring in thin films. Single- and two-photon cross-linking processes led to the reduction in both the refractive index and thickness of the polymer f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Materials for Display Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,587 Views
19 Pages

10 October 2022

Colloidal microspheres could be used as raw materials to construct the photonic crystal modification layers on wood surfaces, and the wood would produce gorgeous structural color effect. The diameter, monodispersity and self-assembly of colloidal mic...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,593 Views
8 Pages

Photonic Crystals with a Defect Fabricated by Two-Photon Polymerization for the Infrared Spectral Range

  • Victoria Paige Stinson,
  • Serang Park,
  • Micheal McLamb,
  • Glenn Boreman and
  • Tino Hofmann

6 December 2021

One-dimensional photonic crystals composed of alternating layers with high- and low-density were fabricated using two-photon polymerization from a single photosensitive polymer for the infrared spectral range. By introducing single high-density layer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,021 Views
10 Pages

A New Three-Component Photo-Initiating System for Visible Light Recording of Volume Holograms with Single-Pulsed Laser

  • Horst Berneth,
  • Friedrich Karl Bruder,
  • Thomas Fäcke,
  • Sven Hansen and ,
  • Koichi Kawamura,
  • Lena Pitzer,
  • Stephan Kern,
  • Brita Wewer and
  • Thomas Rölle
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

13 October 2021

Versatile substituted electron-deficient trichloromethylarenes can easily be synthesized and combined with a Safranine O/triarylalkylborate salt to form a highly efficient three-component photo-initiation system that starts free radical polymerizatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photopolymerization in Advanced Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,776 Views
12 Pages

Dual-Wavelength Lasing with Orthogonal Circular Polarizations Generated in a Single Layer of a Polymer–Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Superstructure

  • Donghao Yang,
  • Marouen Chemingui,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Xinzheng Zhang and ,
  • Irena Drevensek-Olenik,
  • Faheem Hassan,
  • Qiang Wu,
  • Yigang Li,
  • Lotfi Saadaoui and
  • Jingjun Xu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

28 February 2023

We investigate the laser emission from a polymer–cholesteric liquid crystal superstructure with coexisting opposite chiralities fabricated by refilling a right-handed polymeric scaffold with a left-handed cholesteric liquid crystalline material...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical and Structure–Property Relationships of Polymer Composites)
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  • Open Access
73 Citations
6,027 Views
12 Pages

1 January 2020

A facile method for the fabrication of colloidal photonic crystal coatings with tunable structural color on a wood surface was presented. The photonic crystal coatings were formed from monodisperse latex spheres composed of poly(styrene-methyl methac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,798 Views
12 Pages

26 November 2023

A micro-ring resonator structure was fabricated via the two-photon polymerization technique directly on a single-mode fiber tip and tested for refractive index sensing application. The micro-ring structure was used to excite whispering-gallery modes,...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,618 Views
13 Pages

The publication deals with polymeric pA●pT and oligomeric A20●T20 DNA duplexes whose fluorescence is studied by time-correlated single photon counting. It is shown that their emission on the nanosecond timescale is largely dominated by hi...

(This article belongs to the Section Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,556 Views
17 Pages

In this work, we investigated the influence of the synthetic conditions of core/shell particles on physico–chemical properties of their shells, the process of self-assembly of particles into 3D-ordered structures, and the sensitivity of films b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,606 Views
11 Pages

27 June 2023

Micro-fabrication based on structured-beam-assisted Two-Photon Polymerization (2 PP) provides a rapid and flexible method for the manufacture of microstructures with complex morphologies. The tunable Abruptly Autofocusing Vortex (AAFV) beams were des...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical and Photonic Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,982 Views
11 Pages

Fabrication of Chiral 3D Microstructure Using Tightly Focused Multiramp Helico-Conical Optical Beams

  • Jisen Wen,
  • Qiuyuan Sun,
  • Mengdi Luo,
  • Chengpeng Ma and ,
  • Zhenyao Yang,
  • Chenyi Su,
  • Chun Cao,
  • Dazhao Zhu,
  • Chenliang Ding and
  • Xu Liu
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

18 October 2022

Beams with optical vortices are widely used in various fields, including optical communication, optical manipulation and trapping, and, especially in recent years, in the processing of nanoscale structures. However, circular vortex beams are difficul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optics and Photonics in Micromachines)
  • Review
  • Open Access
579 Citations
27,037 Views
45 Pages

Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery, Imaging, and Theragnosis

  • Sabya Sachi Das,
  • Priyanshu Bharadwaj,
  • Muhammad Bilal,
  • Mahmood Barani and ,
  • Abbas Rahdar,
  • Pablo Taboada,
  • Simona Bungau and
  • George Z. Kyzas
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

22 June 2020

In the past few decades, polymeric nanocarriers have been recognized as promising tools and have gained attention from researchers for their potential to efficiently deliver bioactive compounds, including drugs, proteins, genes, nucleic acids, etc.,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polymeric Materials for Drug Delivery Application)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,503 Views
3 Pages

A Process to Realize 2PP-Based Electrodes in Microfluidic Channels

  • Wiebke Gehlken,
  • Melanie Kirsch and
  • Michael J. Vellekoop

In this work, a process to realize metallized 2-photon-polymerized (2PP) structures in prefabricated microfluidic channels is presented, aiming at 3D-structured electrodes. The channel is fabricated using a single-layer process of SU-8 to realize ver...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of XXXV EUROSENSORS Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,013 Views
10 Pages

Single-Mode Polymer Ridge Waveguide Integration of Organic Thin-Film Laser

  • Marko Čehovski,
  • Jing Becker,
  • Ouacef Charfi,
  • Hans-Hermann Johannes and ,
  • Claas Müller and
  • Wolfgang Kowalsky
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 April 2020

Organic thin-film lasers (OLAS) are promising optical sources when it comes to flexibility and small-scale manufacturing. These properties are required especially for integrating organic thin-film lasers into single-mode waveguides. Optical sensors b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Applications in Optics and Photonics: From Sensing and Analytics to Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,231 Views
17 Pages

Conductive Biocomposite Made by Two-Photon Polymerization of Hydrogels Based on BSA and Carbon Nanotubes with Eosin-Y

  • Mikhail S. Savelyev,
  • Artem V. Kuksin,
  • Denis T. Murashko,
  • Ekaterina P. Otsupko and ,
  • Ulyana E. Kurilova,
  • Sergey V. Selishchev and
  • Alexander Yu. Gerasimenko
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 November 2024

Currently, tissue engineering technologies are promising for the restoration of damaged organs and tissues. For regeneration of electrically conductive tissues or neural interfaces, it is necessary to provide electrical conductivity for the transmiss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Polymer Hydrogels: Synthesis, Properties and Applications (2nd Edition))
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  • Open Access
1,126 Views
10 Pages

Label-Free Optical Sensor for Real-Time Monitoring of Insulin Secretion from Single Human Pancreatic Islets

  • Mark F. Coughlan,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Umar Khan,
  • Xuejun Zhang and ,
  • Paul K. Upputuri,
  • Maria Glyavina,
  • Yuri N. Zakharov,
  • Le Qiu and
  • Lev T. Perelman
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

13 May 2026

Glucose-stimulated insulin secretion is the central functional readout of pancreatic islets, yet existing assays often require offline processing or pooling of multiple islets, limiting real-time assessment of single-islet function. Here we report a...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,002 Views
10 Pages

Fabrication of 3D Micro-Blades for the Cutting of Biological Structures in a Microfluidic Guillotine

  • Saisneha Koppaka,
  • Kevin S. Zhang,
  • Myra Kurosu Jalil,
  • Lucas R. Blauch and
  • Sindy K. Y. Tang

24 August 2021

Micro-blade design is an important factor in the cutting of single cells and other biological structures. This paper describes the fabrication process of three-dimensional (3D) micro-blades for the cutting of single cells in a microfluidic “guillotin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers of Micromachines in Biology and Biomedicine 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,608 Views
11 Pages

A Calibration Method for the Resolution of 2D TPP Laser Direct Writing

  • Yu Xie,
  • Yixiong Chen,
  • Hang Xu and
  • Jianxiong Chen

14 January 2023

To improve the fabrication efficiency of the two-photon polymerization (TPP) laser direct writing, the TPP exposure process was set to complete by a single-line scan, which was named 2D TPP. The voxel of the 2D TPP should be large enough to cross the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Power Lasers for Materials Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,222 Views
11 Pages

Measurement of Interfacial Adhesion Force with a 3D-Printed Fiber-Tip Microforce Sensor

  • Mengqiang Zou,
  • Changrui Liao,
  • Yanping Chen,
  • Zongsong Gan and ,
  • Shen Liu,
  • Dejun Liu,
  • Li Liu and
  • Yiping Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 August 2022

With the current trend of device miniaturization, the measurement and control of interfacial adhesion forces are increasingly important in fields such as biomechanics and cell biology. However, conventional fiber optic force sensors with high Young’s...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensor and Bioelectronic Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,775 Views
18 Pages

Formation of Neurointerfaces Based on Electrically Conductive Biopolymers by Two-Photon Polymerization Method

  • Mikhail S. Savelyev,
  • Artem V. Kuksin,
  • Denis T. Murashko,
  • Ekaterina P. Otsupko and ,
  • Victoria V. Suchkova,
  • Kristina D. Popovich,
  • Pavel N. Vasilevsky,
  • Yulia O. Vasilevskaya,
  • Ulyana E. Kurilova and
  • Alexander Yu. Gerasimenko
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

9 May 2025

Preventing false signals of phantom pain after limb amputation is crucial. The development of neurointerfaces capable of bidirectional information exchange between the brain and external devices, along with long-term use, is a key research priority....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Electroactive Polymers: 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
458 Citations
29,575 Views
67 Pages

Polymerization Reactions and Modifications of Polymers by Ionizing Radiation

  • Aiysha Ashfaq,
  • Marie-Claude Clochard,
  • Xavier Coqueret,
  • Clelia Dispenza and ,
  • Mark S. Driscoll,
  • Piotr Ulański and
  • Mohamad Al-Sheikhly
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 November 2020

Ionizing radiation has become the most effective way to modify natural and synthetic polymers through crosslinking, degradation, and graft polymerization. This review will include an in-depth analysis of radiation chemistry mechanisms and the kinetic...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,857 Views
23 Pages

The Development and Validation of a High-Resolution Photonic and Wireless System for Knee Gait Cycle Monitoring

  • Rui Pedro Leitão da Silva Rocha,
  • Marcio Luís Munhoz Amorim,
  • Melkzedekue Alcântara Moreira,
  • Mario Gazziro and ,
  • Marco Roberto Cavallari,
  • Luciana Oliveira de Almeida,
  • Oswaldo Hideo Ando Junior and
  • João Paulo Pereira do Carmo
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

This paper presents the development and validation of a high-resolution photonic and wireless monitoring system for knee-referenced gait cycle analysis. The proposed system integrates a single optical Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensor with a resonance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,236 Views
9 Pages

Dispersion Analysis and Control in a Yb-Doped Fiber Chirped Pulse Amplification System and Second-Harmonic Generation

  • Zhengying You,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Yuanyuan Fan,
  • Yifan Zhao and ,
  • Yan Qi,
  • Boxia Yan,
  • Ning Wen,
  • Zhe Han,
  • Mi Zhou and
  • Yanwei Wang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

27 January 2026

We report a dispersion-controlled Yb-doped fiber chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system incorporating a tunable chirped fiber Bragg grating (CFBG) stretcher and a single-grating transmission compressor for dynamic compensation of power-dependent no...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Lasers and Their Applications, 3rd Edition)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,015 Views
10 Pages

8 March 2024

The imaging quality of the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer (IMS) is crucial for spectral identification and detection performance. In IMS, the image mapper significantly influences the imaging quality. Traditional image mappers utilize a single-point di...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,137 Views
15 Pages

Modulation of Cell Behavior by 3D Biocompatible Hydrogel Microscaffolds with Precise Configuration

  • Wei-Cai Zhang,
  • Mei-Ling Zheng,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Feng Jin and ,
  • Xian-Zi Dong,
  • Min Guo and
  • Teng Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

7 September 2021

Three-dimensional (3D) micronano structures have attracted much attention in tissue engineering since they can better simulate the microenvironment in vivo. Two-photon polymerization (TPP) technique provides a powerful tool for printing arbitrary 3D...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Processing, Surfaces and Interfaces of Nanomaterials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,086 Views
12 Pages

Structure Design of Polymer-Based Films for Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling

  • Mu Du,
  • Maoquan Huang,
  • Xiyu Yu,
  • Xingjie Ren and
  • Qie Sun

2 December 2022

Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC), a cooling method that needs no additional energy, has become increasingly popular in recent years. The combination of disordered media and polymeric photonics will hopefully lead to the large-scale fabricatio...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,046 Views
47 Pages

27 December 2025

Ovarian cancer continues to be the most lethal gynaecological malignancy, principally due to its late-stage diagnosis, extensive peritoneal dissemination, chemoresistance, and limitations of current imaging and therapeutic strategies. By optimising p...

(This article belongs to the Section Methods and Technologies Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,329 Views
16 Pages

Study on Structural Design and Motion Characteristics of Magnetic Helical Soft Microrobots with Drug-Carrying Function

  • Qian Gao,
  • Tingting Lin,
  • Ziteng Liu,
  • Zebiao Chen and ,
  • Zidong Chen,
  • Cheng Hu and
  • Teng Shen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Magnetic soft microrobots have a wide range of applications in targeted drug therapy, cell manipulation, and other aspects. Currently, the research on magnetic soft microrobots is still in the exploratory stage, and most of the research focuses on a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,806 Views
30 Pages

New Solids in As-O-Mo, As(P)-O-Mo(W) and As(P)-O-Nb(W) Systems That Exhibit Nonlinear Optical Properties

  • Nikolay Gerasimchuk,
  • Lauri Kivijarvi,
  • Bruce Noll,
  • Meriem Goudjil and ,
  • Soma Khanra,
  • Yu Ping,
  • Miles Pearson and
  • Frank Röminger
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Interactions between well-mixed fine powders of As2O3, P2O5, MoO3, WO3 and Nb2O5 at different stoichiometry in quartz ampoules under vacuum at ~1000 °C in the presence of metallic molybdenum (or niobium), over several weeks, led to shiny dichroic cry...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Modern Inorganic Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,719 Views
15 Pages

Photophysical and Primary Self-Referencing Thermometric Properties of Europium Hydrogen-Bonded Triazine Frameworks

  • Chaoqing Yang,
  • Dimitrije Mara,
  • Joydeb Goura,
  • Flavia Artizzu and
  • Rik Van Deun

8 October 2022

Lanthanide hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (LnHOFs) are recently emerging as a novel versatile class of multicomponent luminescent materials with promising potential applications in optics and photonics. Trivalent europium (Eu3+) incorporated poly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metal Complexes for Optical and Electronics Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,353 Views
13 Pages

Additive Manufacturing Based Polymer Compounded Refractive Lenses for X-Ray Focusing at Synchrotron Light Sources

  • Boyong Wang,
  • Rongcheng Yang,
  • Pingping Wen,
  • Zhihao Guan and ,
  • Yajun Tong,
  • Zhi Qiao and
  • Huaidong Jiang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Additive manufacturing offers a promising route to low-cost, rapidly deployable X-ray focusing optics with geometries that are difficult to realize by conventional machining. Here, we report polymer compound refractive lenses (CRLs) for hard X-ray fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation X-Ray Optical Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,305 Views
20 Pages

Effect of the 3D Artificial Nichoid on the Morphology and Mechanobiological Response of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured In Vitro

  • Andrea Remuzzi,
  • Barbara Bonandrini,
  • Matteo Tironi,
  • Lorena Longaretti and ,
  • Marina Figliuzzi,
  • Sara Conti,
  • Tommaso Zandrini,
  • Roberto Osellame,
  • Giulio Cerullo and
  • Manuela Teresa Raimondi
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

11 August 2020

Stem cell fate and behavior are affected by the bidirectional communication of cells and their local microenvironment (the stem cell niche), which includes biochemical cues, as well as physical and mechanical factors. Stem cells are normally cultured...

(This article belongs to the Section Stem Cells)