Chemically defined, ultrasoft PDMS elastomers with selectable elasticity for mechanobiology

Viktor Heinrichs; Sabine Dieluweit; Jörg Stellbrink; Wim Pyckhout-Hintzen; Nils Hersch; Dieter Richter; Rudolf Merkel

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195180

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Chemically defined, ultrasoft PDMS elastomers with selectable elasticity for mechanobiology

Viktor Heinrichs,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Institute of Complex Systems 7, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Juelich Centre for Neutron Science 1 and Institute of Complex Systems 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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Sabine Dieluweit,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Complex Systems 7, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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Jörg Stellbrink,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Juelich Centre for Neutron Science 1 and Institute of Complex Systems 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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Wim Pyckhout-Hintzen,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Juelich Centre for Neutron Science 1 and Institute of Complex Systems 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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Nils Hersch,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Complex Systems 7, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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Dieter Richter,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Juelich Centre for Neutron Science 1 and Institute of Complex Systems 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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Rudolf Merkel

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: r.merkel@fz-juelich.de

Affiliation Institute of Complex Systems 7, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3178-3282

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Chemically defined, ultrasoft PDMS elastomers with selectable elasticity for mechanobiology

Viktor Heinrichs,
Sabine Dieluweit,
Jörg Stellbrink,
Wim Pyckhout-Hintzen,
Nils Hersch,
Dieter Richter,
Rudolf Merkel

Published: April 6, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195180

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