Wenqian Xiao

Research Interests: Microstructured tissue-engineering scaffold and novel nanofibrous scaffold for tissue engineering

Experience & Skills: electrospun technology

surface modification

layer-by-layer self-assembly technology

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1:Layer-by-Layer Assembly to Build up the Collagen and Hyaluronic Acid Polyelectrolyte Multilayers on PCL Aligned Nanofiber Surface for Cardiac Tissue Engineering

2:Surface Biomineralization of Poly(ε-caprolactone) nanofibrous scaffold for Bone tissue engineering.

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wqxiao2004@gmail.com

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Meeting Date: Jan 6/ 2009

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Ali's comments:

Why are you doing it?

What is the impact?

Do we want to pattern the same material or different ones?

PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED (PI) / OUTSIDE SKILL REQUIRED (OSR) / RESOLVED (R)

PAPER TITLE

A) Background

B) Hypothesis

B) Specific Aims

C) General Experimental Approach (Design etc)

D) Pitfalls and alternatives

E) Potential Figures

F) Future Directions

A) BACKGROUND:

B) HYPOTHESIS

C) SPECIFIC AIMS

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AIM 2 -

D) GENERAL EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH

E) PITFALLS AND ALTERNATIVES

F) ANTICIPATED FIGURES FOR PAPER or when you have data, FIGURES FOR PAPER

G) FUTURE DIRECTIONS

H) MATERIALS AND METHODS

1: Processing of nanofibrous scaffolds using the electrospinning technology

2: Mineralization of electrospun nanofibrous scaffolds

3: Material characterization

4: Cell attachment study

5:MTT assay

6: Alkaline phosphatase activity assay

7:Cell morphology

I) RESULTS

J) DISCUSSION

K) LITERATURE

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