@article{4474198f027e4e0e9049764275840cb2,
title = "Electrochemical hydrogel lithography of calcium-alginate hydrogels for cell culture",
abstract = "Here we propose a novel electrochemical lithography methodology for fabricating calcium-alginate hydrogels having controlled shapes. We separated the chambers for Ca2+ production and gel formation with alginate with a semipermeable membrane. Ca2+ formed in the production chamber permeated through the membrane to fabricate a gel structure on the membrane in the gel formation chamber. When the calcium-alginate hydrogels were modified with collagen, HepG2 cells proliferated on the hydrogels. These results show that electrochemical hydrogel lithography is useful for cell culture.",
keywords = "Calcium-alginate hydrogel, Cell culture, Electrochemical hydrogel lithography, Electrodeposition",
author = "Fumisato Ozawa and Kosuke Ino and Hitoshi Shiku and Tomokazu Matsue",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments: This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (Nos. 25248032 and 16H02280) and for Young Scientists (B) (No. 23760745) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 by the authors.",
year = "2016",
month = sep,
doi = "10.3390/ma9090744",
language = "English",
volume = "9",
journal = "Materials",
issn = "1996-1944",
publisher = "MDPI AG",
number = "9",
}