Tissue Engineering: Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles as an Effective Bioadhesive to Bond Collagen Containing Composite Gel Layers for Tissue Engineering Applications (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 5/2018)

In article number 1701385, Ponnambalam Ravi Selvaganapathy and co‐workers use a lamination‐based planar processing strategy enabled by nanoparticle adhesives to address one of the prominent technical challenges found in the tissue engineering field – the incorporation of perfusable hollow networks for nutrient and waste transport within artificial 3D tissue constructs. Without these vascular‐like networks, the cells embedded within the constructs would quickly become necrotic. Silicon Carbide, used as a nanoadhesive, has been shown to be very effective in adhering microstructured layers of biologically important extracellular matrices containing collagen to form perfusable 3D netoworks suitable for growing cells.