Programmatic Summary: Self-Regulating, Self-Pressurizing Tubules for Integrated Circulatory Systems

In this Director's Research Initiative (DRI) effort, we have developed surface treatments with cleavable Diels-Alder bonds that allow for a transition between wetting and non-wetting conditions via a combination of thermal and chemical treatments. These treatments are applied internally to glass capillaries to demonstrate the applicability of the technique for regulating flow in synthetic vascular systems. This report is a programmatic summary and will be supplemented by a complete technical report as a future publication.
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