Rapid Wire Casting: A Multimaterial Microphysiological Platform Enabled by Rapid Casting of Elastic Microwires (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 5/2019)

In article number 1801187 by Milica Radisic, Boyang Zhang, and co-workers, a scalable, functional, and 96-well plate compatible platform is presented with innovative multimaterial processing. Three classes of materials are integrated, including built-in electrodes to drive electrical stimulation for tissue maturation and induce tissue contraction during drug testing; an array of suspended soft elastic microwires used both as anchors for tissue formation and sensors for tissue contraction; and tissue culture grade polystyrene.