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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 13.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Mater. 2011 Dec 5;24(5):746–758. doi: 10.1021/cm202632m

Figure 12.

Figure 12

Micrograph of fibroblast cells growing on a colloid-in-LC gel. The cells are stained with calcein-AM (scale bar = 20 μm) and the LC used to form the gel was E7; inset: corresponding polarized light image showing bright nematic LC domains confined by dark boundaries formed by colloids. Reproduced with permission from ref 41 (Wiley-VCH).