Leveraging Crosslinker Diffusion to Template Stiffness Gradients in Alginate Hydrogels
Zoe Ostrowski, Tyler Price, Juntao Zhang, Azarnoosh Foroozandehfar, Fred Rogers Namanda, Tim Kaufmann, Natalia Judka, Tyler Gardner, Mary Thatcher, Emmaline Miller, Lily Mesyk, Abigail Koep, Adam T. Melvin, Juan Ren, Ian C. Schneider
This paper develops a method to create stiffness gradients in alginate hydrogels using stencils, enabling the study of mechanosensitive cell behaviors like cancer cell invasion.
Biomedical Materials · Nov 1, 2025Peer-reviewedBioengineering