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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 3.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Mater. 2011 Dec 16;24(1):64–2. doi: 10.1002/adma.201103574

Figure 1.

Figure 1

PEG-maleimide hydrogel chemistry. A) Maleimide Michael-type addition reaction. B) 4-arm PEG Maleimide macromer. C) Acrylate and vinyl sulfone reactive groups. D) Sample cross-linked PEG-4MAL hydrogel. E) Michael-type addition hydrogel reaction scheme: PEG-macromers are first functionalized with RGD adhesive ligand followed by cross-linking with a thiol-flanked enzyme-degradable peptide.