Natural fiber-reinforced polycaprolactone green and hybrid biocomposites for various advanced applications

RA Ilyas, MYM Zuhri, MNF Norrrahim, MSM Misenan… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent developments within the topic of biomaterials has taken hold of researchers due to
the mounting concern of current environmental pollution as well as scarcity resources …

Polycaprolactone-based biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery: Current scenario and challenges

D Mondal, M Griffith… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Recently, poly (є-caprolactone)(PCL) has gained a lot of attention, and shown
great potential in biomedical applications. Among synthetic polymers, PCL is one of the …

Biodegradable polymers for electrospinning: Towards biomedical applications

D Kai, SS Liow, XJ Loh - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2014 - Elsevier
Electrospinning has received much attention recently due to the growing interest in nano-
technologies and the unique material properties. This review focuses on recent progress in …

Functionalization of electrospun nanofibers and fiber alignment enhance neural stem cell proliferation and neuronal differentiation

MC Amores de Sousa, CAV Rodrigues… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neural stem cells (NSCs) have the potential to generate the cells of the nervous system and,
when cultured on nanofiber scaffolds, constitute a promising approach for neural tissue …

Formation of melt and solution spun polycaprolactone fibers by centrifugal spinning

NE Zander - Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Nano‐and microfibers have a myriad of applications ranging from filtration, composites,
energy harvesting, to tissue engineering and drug delivery. Electrospinning, the most …

Fabrication of nerve growth factor encapsulated aligned poly (ε-caprolactone) nanofibers and their assessment as a potential neural tissue engineering scaffold

J Hu, L Tian, MP Prabhakaran, X Ding, S Ramakrishna - Polymers, 2016 - mdpi.com
Peripheral nerve injury is a serious clinical problem to be solved. There has been no
breakthrough so far and neural tissue engineering offers a promising approach to promote …

Quantification of protein incorporated into electrospun polycaprolactone tissue engineering scaffolds

NE Zander, JA Orlicki, AM Rawlett… - ACS applied materials …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The surface modification of synthetic tissue engineering scaffolds is essential to improving
their hydrophilicity and cellular compatibility. Plasma treatment is an effective way to …

The effect of surface modification of poly‐lactide‐co‐glycolide/carbon nanotube nanofibrous scaffolds by laminin protein on nerve tissue engineering

N Nazeri, R Karimi, H Ghanbari - Journal of Biomedical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of biological cues to promote the attachment, proliferation, and differentiation
of neuronal cells is important in the process of nerve regeneration. In this study, laminin as a …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered neural tissue made using hydrogels derived from decellularised tissues for the regeneration of peripheral nerves

SC Kellaway, V Roberton, JN Jones, R Loczenski… - Acta biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Engineered neural tissue (EngNT) promotes in vivo axonal regeneration. Decellularised
materials (dECM) are complex biologic scaffolds that can improve the cellular environment …

Fabrication and characterization of electrospun feather keratin/poly (vinyl alcohol) composite nanofibers

M He, B Zhang, Y Dou, G Yin, Y Cui, X Chen - RSC advances, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Feathers, which contain more than 90% of keratin, are valuable natural protein resources.
Moreover, recycling waste feathers to develop biomaterials contributes to environmental …