“Hard” ceramics for “Soft” tissue engineering: Paradox or opportunity?

S Kargozar, RK Singh, HW Kim, F Baino - Acta Biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Tissue engineering provides great possibilities to manage tissue damages and injuries in
modern medicine. The involvement of hard biocompatible materials in tissue engineering …

Synthetic polymers as bone engineering scaffold

MJ Javid‐Naderi, J Behravan… - Polymers for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Damage or loss of the bone tissue leads to mobility decline contributing to one of the major
issues of human well‐being. Tissue engineering is used to recover fractures and damaged …

PCL and PCL-based materials in biomedical applications

E Malikmammadov, TE Tanir, A Kiziltay… - Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Biodegradable polymers have met with an increasing demand in medical usage over the
last decades. One of such polymers is poly (ε-caprolactone)(PCL), which is a polyester that …

Three-dimensional high-porosity chitosan/honeycomb porous carbon/hydroxyapatite scaffold with enhanced osteoinductivity for bone regeneration

C Dai, Y Li, W Pan, G Wang, R Huang… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional honeycomb porous carbon (HPC) has attracted increasing attention in
bioengineering due to excellent mechanical properties and a high surface-to-volume ratio …

Functional regeneration of tendons using scaffolds with physical anisotropy engineered via microarchitectural manipulation

Z Wang, WJ Lee, BTH Koh, M Hong, W Wang… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Structural and hierarchical anisotropy underlies the structure-function relationship of most
living tissues. Attempts to exploit the interplay between cells and their immediate …

[HTML][HTML] Polydopamine modified polycaprolactone powder for fabrication bone scaffold owing intrinsic bioactivity

P Feng, M Liu, S Peng, S Bin, Z Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polycaprolactone (PCL) has been extensively investigated in the field of bone tissue
engineering due to its good biocompatibility, biodegradability and processability …

Preparation and optimization of polyurethane/crosslinked poly acrylic acid semi-IPNs containing multi wall carbon nanotube applicable for artificial tendon

S Zenoozi, GMM Sadeghi, M Shahrousvand… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
The tendons and nerves of the body are inextricably linked to each other. That is why the
adjacent neural system should also be supported in the most effective treatments for …

[HTML][HTML] New insights in the morphological characterization and modelling of poly (ε-caprolactone) bone scaffolds obtained by supercritical CO2 foaming

V Santos-Rosales, M Gallo, P Jaeger… - The journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hierarchically porous synthetic bone grafts (scaffolds) are gaining attention in the clinical
arena. Scaffolds should combine morphological (macro-and microporosity, pore …

Design of an electrospun tubular construct combining a mechanical and biological approach to improve tendon repair

N Pien, Y Van de Maele, L Parmentier… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Springer
Hand tendon injuries represent a major clinical problem and might dramatically diminish a
patient's life quality. In this study, a targeted solution for flexor tendon repair was developed …

Fabrication of bioactive hydroxyapatite/silk fibroin/gelatin cross-linked nanocomposite for biomedical application

J Mobika, M Rajkumar, SPL Sibi, VN Priya - Materials Chemistry and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Hydroxyapatite/Silk fibroin/Gelatin (HSG) composite is a promising artificial bone
graft material, which mimics the properties of the natural extracellular matrix components …