Bilateral swelling self-inflating tissue expanders

Thesis

Hydrogel tissue expander (HTE) self-inflates in vivo by gradually absorbing body fluid. It eliminates the regular injections required by the conventional balloon-type tissue expander and provides a more progressive stretching process to the tissue. Previously, the hot-compressed anisotropic HTE (A-HTE) has achieved uniaxial swelling and could potentially match defects of anisotropy. This present work applied die-drawing as the solid-state processing to impart shape memory to the crosslinke...

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Authors: Min, X

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-nzxprgkn4
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: bilateral swelling; hydrogel; Methylmethacrylate; tissue expander; anisotropic; N-vinylpyrrolidone; die-drawing
• Subjects: Biomedical materials