Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Elastomeric polyamide biomaterials with stereochemically tuneable mechanical properties and shape memory

  • Joshua C. Worch,
  • Andrew C. Weems,
  • Jiayi Yu,
  • Maria C. Arno,
  • Thomas R. Wilks,
  • Robert T. R. Huckstepp,
  • Rachel K. O’Reilly,
  • Matthew L. Becker,
  • Andrew P. Dove

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16945-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Few biomaterials are suitable for long-term tissue engineering applications and these examples usually possess limited property scope, can be difficult to process, and are non-responsive to external stimuli. Here, the authors overcome these issues by developing a class of easily processable polyamides with stereo-controlled mechanical properties and high-fidelity shape memory behaviour.