Clay Materials: Clay Nanotubes Aligned with Shear Forces for Mesenchymal Stem Cell Patterning (Small 21/2019)

In article number 1900357, Yuri Lvov, Mingxian Liu, and co-workers report a simple method for preparing oriented clay nanotube architectures. The clay nanotubes are aligned by brush induced shear force into strip-like patterns on different substrates at elevated temperature. This clay pattern can induce stem cell orientation growth and is promising for surface modification in tissue engineering materials.