Communications
29 September 2021
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.184

Light processable starch hydrogels

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Hydrogels, UV-curing, starch
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Camilla Noè
Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, University of Torino, Turin, Italy.
Chiara Tonda-Turo
Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Annalisa Chiappone
Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, University of Torino, Turin, Italy.
Marco Sangermano
Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, University of Torino, Turin, Italy.
Minna Hakkarainen
minna@kth.se
Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Light processable hydrogels were successfully fabricated by utilizing maize starch as raw material. Increasing the starch content from 10 to 15 wt% increased the compressive stiffness from 13 to 20 kPa, which covers the stiffness of different body tissues.

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Light processable starch hydrogels. (2021). Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.184
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