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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2017 Oct 9;117(20):12764–12850. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00094

Figure 18.

Figure 18.

Spatial modulation of hydrogel mechanical properties. (A) Schematic of photopatterning hydrogels with bar-coded (a) and gradient (b) stiffness. (B) Schematic of the microfluidic fabrication of hydrogels with a mechanical gradient (a) and core–shell (softer-stiffer) hydrogel particles (b).