Fabrication of biomedical scaffolds using biodegradable polymers

A Kirillova, TR Yeazel, D Asheghali… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Degradable polymers are used widely in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Maturing capabilities in additive manufacturing coupled with advances in orthogonal …

A review of the designs and prominent biomedical advances of natural and synthetic hydrogel formulations

DA Gyles, LD Castro, JOC Silva Jr… - European Polymer …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are three-dimensional hydrophilic polymeric networks, capable of absorbing
large quantities of water and biological fluids and simulating biological tissue when swollen …

[HTML][HTML] Progress and opportunities in Gellan gum-based materials: A review of preparation, characterization and emerging applications

D Gomes, JP Batista-Silva, A Sousa… - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2023 - Elsevier
Gellan gum, a microbial exopolysaccharide, is biodegradable and has potential to fill
several key roles in many fields from food to pharmacy, biomedicine and tissue engineering …

A review on latest innovations in natural gums based hydrogels: Preparations & applications

S Ahmad, M Ahmad, K Manzoor, R Purwar… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The prospective uses of natural gum polysaccharides in various aspects of food, water,
energy, biotechnology, environment and medicine industries, have garnered a great deal of …

PVA-based hydrogels for tissue engineering: A review

A Kumar, SS Han - International journal of polymeric materials and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA) is a hydrophilic polymer with excellent biocompatibility
and has been applied in various biomedical areas due to its favorable properties. PVA …

Recent trends on gellan gum blends with natural and synthetic polymers: A review

KM Zia, S Tabasum, MF Khan, N Akram… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Gellan gum (GG), a linear negatively charged exopolysaccharide, is biodegradable and non-
toxic in nature. It produces hard and translucent gel in the presence of metallic ions which is …

Polysaccharide-based nanofibers for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications: A review

S Priya, U Batra, RN Samshritha, S Sharma… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanofibers are fibrous nanocarriers that can be synthesized from natural polymers, synthetic
polymers, semiconducting materials, composite materials, and carbon-based materials …

Poly (vinyl alcohol)-based nanofibrous electrospun scaffolds for tissue engineering applications

MA Teixeira, MTP Amorim, HP Felgueiras - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering (TE) holds an enormous potential to develop functional scaffolds
resembling the structural organization of native tissues, to improve or replace biological …

Electrospun nanofiber/hydrogel composite materials and their tissue engineering applications

M Zhang, S Xu, R Wang, Y Che, C Han, W Feng… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Electrospun nanofiber/hydrogel composites combine the excellent biochemical properties of
hydrogel with the biomimetic nature of electrospun fibers, and have attracted widespread …

Methylene blue removal from aqueous solutions using a biochar/gellan gum hydrogel composite: Effect of agitation mode on sorption kinetics

AM Elgarahy, HY Mostafa, EG Zaki, SM ElSaeed… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogel membranes are prepared by casting a mixture of gellan gum (associated with
PVA) and biochar produced from a local Egyptian plant. The mesoporous material is …