Aliphatic polycarbonates from cyclic carbonate monomers and their application as biomaterials

W Yu, E Maynard, V Chiaradia, MC Arno… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Aliphatic polycarbonates have gained increased attention as biomaterials largely owing to
their biocompatibility and tunable degradation. Moreover, the ability to introduce functional …

Polymers for melt electrowriting

JC Kade, PD Dalton - Advanced healthcare materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Melt electrowriting (MEW) is an emerging high‐resolution additive manufacturing technique
based on the electrohydrodynamic processing of polymers. MEW is predominantly used to …

Melt electrowriting of PLA, PCL, and composite PLA/PCL scaffolds for tissue engineering application

M Shahverdi, S Seifi, A Akbari, K Mohammadi… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Fabrication of well-ordered and bio-mimetic scaffolds is one of the most important research
lines in tissue engineering. Different techniques have been utilized to achieve this goal …

Electrospinning: An enabling nanotechnology platform for drug delivery and regenerative medicine

S Chen, R Li, X Li, J Xie - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Electrospinning provides an enabling nanotechnology platform for generating a rich variety
of novel structured materials in many biomedical applications including drug delivery …

Enabling New Approaches: Recent Advances in Processing Aliphatic Polycarbonate‐Based Materials

P Wei, GA Bhat, DJ Darensbourg - … Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aliphatic polycarbonates (aPCs) have become increasingly popular as functional materials
due to their biocompatibility and capacity for on‐demand degradation. Advances in …

Poly (trimethylene carbonate)-based polymers engineered for biodegradable functional biomaterials

K Fukushima - Biomaterials science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Aliphatic polycarbonates have drawn attention as biodegradable polymers that can be
applied to a broad range of resorbable medical devices. In particular, poly (trimethylene …

Functional biodegradable polymers via ring-opening polymerization of monomers without protective groups

G Becker, FR Wurm - Chemical society reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Biodegradable polymers are of current interest and chemical functionality in such materials
is often demanded in advanced biomedical applications. Functional groups often are not …

[HTML][HTML] Melt electrowriting below the critical translation speed to fabricate crimped elastomer scaffolds with non-linear extension behaviour mimicking that of …

G Hochleitner, F Chen, C Blum, PD Dalton, B Amsden… - Acta biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Ligaments and tendons are comprised of aligned, crimped collagen fibrils that provide tissue-
specific mechanical properties with non-linear extension behaviour, exhibiting low stress at …

Fiber bridging during melt electrowriting of poly (ε‐caprolactone) and the influence of fiber diameter and wall height

J Kim, E Bakirci, KL O'Neill… - Macromolecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Melt electrowriting (MEW) is a direct‐writing technology for small diameter fibers; however,
due to electrostatic attraction, the technique is restricted in how close these microfibers can …

Braided and stacked electrospun nanofibrous scaffolds for tendon and ligament tissue engineering

BB Rothrauff, BB Lauro, G Yang, RE Debski… - … Engineering Part A, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Tendon and ligament injuries are a persistent orthopedic challenge given their poor innate
healing capacity. Nonwoven electrospun nanofibrous scaffolds composed of polyesters …