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The major obstacle for heart engineering requires a resource of heart cells, such as CMs (cardiomyocytes), SMCs (smooth muscle cells), Ecs (endothelial cells ), CFs (cardiac fibroblasts) and a 3D heart scaffold that allows the seeded cells to attach, assemble, synchronize, and form 3D structures. Currently, a variety of synthetic matrices and natural-derived biomatrices have been developed and widely utilized for tissue engineering (Jakab et al., 2015). However, such matrices normally have a uniform composition [