Engineering complex anisotropic scaffolds beyond simply uniaxial alignment for tissue engineering

J Xing, N Liu, N Xu, W Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Anisotropic microarchitectures arising from an aligned organization of threadlike
extracellular matrix (ECM) components or cells are ubiquitous in the human body, such as …

Recent advances in functional polymer materials for energy, water, and biomedical applications: a review

Y El-Ghoul, FM Alminderej, FM Alsubaie, R Alrasheed… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Academic research regarding polymeric materials has been of great interest. Likewise,
polymer industries are considered as the most familiar petrochemical industries. Despite the …

Electrospun nanofibers for manipulating soft tissue regeneration

X Zhang, Y Meng, B Gong, T Wang, Y Lu… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft tissue damage is a common clinical problem that affects the lives of a large number of
patients all over the world. It is of great importance to develop functional scaffolds to …

Oriented porous polymer scaffolds in tissue engineering: a comprehensive review of preparation strategies and applications

T Liu, Y Wang, T Kuang - Macromolecular Materials and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The pursuit of effective therapeutic strategies for tissue damage has prompted extensive
scholarly investigations worldwide. Tissue engineering has emerged as a prominent …

Recent advances in tissue-engineered cardiac scaffolds—the progress and gap in mimicking native myocardium mechanical behaviors

S Baghersad, A Sathish Kumar, MJ Kipper… - Journal of Functional …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Heart failure is the leading cause of death in the US and worldwide. Despite modern
therapy, challenges remain to rescue the damaged organ that contains cells with a very low …

Tri‐layered alginate/poly(𝜀‐caprolactone) electrospun scaffold for cardiac tissue engineering

SNH Karimi, RM Aghdam, SAS Ebrahimi… - Polymer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Novel tri‐layered electrospun alginate–graphene oxide (GO)/poly (ε‐caprolactone)(PCL)
conductive scaffolds were fabricated with a sequential electrospinning method for the first …

[HTML][HTML] Oriented/dual-gradient in structure and mechanics chitosan hydrogel bio-films based on stretching for guiding cell orientation

K Li, J Xu, J Wang, X Gu, P Li, Y Fan - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Various anisotropic scaffolds have been fabricated to significantly assist cell alignment or
orientation to mimic the natural oriented tissues. To pursuit facile preparation and further …

Bioprinting‐assisted Tissue Assembly for Structural and Functional Modulation of Engineered Heart Tissue Mimicking Left Ventricular Myocardial Fiber Orientation

DG Hwang, H Choi, U Yong, D Kim, W Kang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Left ventricular twist is influenced by the unique oriented structure of myocardial fibers.
Replicating this intricate structural‐functional relationship in an in vitro heart model remains …

Recent Progress in Fabrication of Electrospun Nanofiber Membranes for Developing Physiological In Vitro Organ/Tissue Models

D Kim, J Youn, J Lee, H Kim… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nanofiber membranes (NFMs), which have an extracellular matrix‐mimicking structure and
unique physical properties, have garnered great attention as biomimetic materials for …

Maturation of human cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC-CMs) on polycaprolactone and polyurethane nanofibrous mats

Z Iwoń, E Krogulec, I Tarnowska, I Łopianiak… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Investigating the potential of human cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem
cells (iPSC-CMs) in in vitro heart models is essential to develop cardiac regenerative …