Commercially Available Textiles as a Scaffolding Platform for Large-Scale Cell Culture

Figure 1

Textile-based devices for cell culture applications. (a) Design specifications of the devices. (b) Micrographs of the textile-based devices showing the differences in the printed and nonprinted zones. The printed zones showed the presence of coating of melted toner ink particles (40x magnification and scale bar: 200 μm). (c) Contact angle measurement of the printed (hydrophobic, contact angle: ∼112.5°) and nonprinted (hydrophilic, contact angle: ∼70.5°) zones of the textile devices. (d) Schematics demonstrating the preparation and cell seeding on the textile devices. Representative images for cell seeding on the textile device have been provided in supplementary figure S3.