Dissecting Biological and Synthetic Soft-Hard Interfaces for Tissue-Like Systems.

ABSTRACT: Soft and hard materials at interfaces exhibit mismatched behaviors, such as mismatched chemical or biochemical reactivity, mechanical response, and environmental adaptability. Leveraging or mitigating these differences can yield interfacial processes difficult to achieve, or inapplicable, in pure soft or pure hard phases. Exploration of interfacial mismatches and their associated (bio)chemical, mechanical, or other physical processes may yield numerous opportunities in both fundamental studies and applications, in a manner similar to that of semiconductor heterojunctions and their contribution to solid-state physics and the semiconductor industry over the past few decades. In this review, we explore the fundamental chemical roles and principles involved in designing these interfaces, such

SUBMITTER: Fang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8917063 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature