Liquid-crystalline nanoarchitectures for tissue engineering

• Baeckkyoung Sung and
• Min-Ho Kim

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 205–215, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.22

• challenges for applying LC nanoarchitectures in tissue engineering fields is discussed. Keywords: biocolloid; biopolymer; cell-matrix interaction; mesophase; regenerative medicine; Review Introduction Liquid crystals (LCs) are ubiquitous in our life [1]. On one hand, LC materials play a central role in

• phase behaviors of LCs found in biological tissues in vivo as well as biocolloid systems in vitro are introduced, with a specific emphasis on the nanoscale geometries of elementary LC phases. Then, recent research efforts for applying LC nanoarchitectures to tissue engineering are summarized and