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Sep 2026
A designable twist-densification route to bioactive collagen hydrogel yarns approaching tendon-like mechanics
Reconstituted collagen hydrogels offer the bioactivity that load-bearing tissue engineering requires, but their Pascal to low-kPa moduli have confined them to non-structural roles, and the synthetic and hybrid strategies that close the mechanical gap typically forfeit that bioactivity. We show that a twist-induced dens...
Yang Xie, Wen-Jie Wu, Wei-Wei Zhang et al.
· Bioactive Materials · 1 citation