Given their highly porous nature and excellent water retention, hydrogel‐based biomaterials
can mimic critical properties of the native cellular environment. However, their potential to …

Polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs) strategy shows a great deal of advantages for the
fabrication of advanced ceramics. Organosilicon polymers facilitate the shaping process and …

Silicon carbide (SiC) has been around for more than 100 years as an industrial material and
has found wide and varied applications because of its unique electrical and thermal …

Silk is a natural fibrous polymer with application potential in regenerative medicine.
Increasing interest remains for silk materials in bone tissue engineering due to their …

This review examined the literature to spot uses, if any, of physiological solutions/media for
the in situ synthesis of calcium phosphates (CaP) under processing conditions (ie …

Porous and cytocompatible silicon carbide (SiC) ceramics derived from wood precursors
and coated with bioactive hydroxyapatite (HA) and HA-zirconium dioxide (HA/ZrO 2) …

Hydroxyapatite (HAP) coatings are applied on metallic implant materials to combine
mechanical properties of metallic material with bioactivity abilities of HAP ceramic. In this …

Wood gains much attention owing to its unique characters such as cellular pore structures,
low density etc. Wood-derived carbides have great potential applications as the high …

A bioactive micro/nanostructured calcium phytate coating was successfully prepared on
titanium surfaces by chemical conversion deposition, mainly through hydrothermal treatment …

Materials development is driven by microstructural complexity and, in many cases, inspired
by biological systems such as bones, shells and wood. In one approach, one selects the …