Electric field (EF) stimulation can play a vital role in eliciting appropriate stem cell response.
Such an approach is recently being established to guide stem cell differentiation through …

Bone is a hard yet dynamic tissue with remarkable healing capacities. Research to date has
greatly advanced the understanding of how bone heals and has led to marked success in …

This review reports the promising prospects of poly (lactic acid)(PLA) based nanostructured
materials considering two of their main potential uses, packaging and tissue engineering …

In the last two decades, an increasing amount of studies have investigated the use of
components based on carbon-(nano) materials in the engineering of neural interfaces, to …

Conducting polymers have found numerous applications as biomaterial components serving
to effectively deliver electrical signals from an external source to the seeded cells. Several …

With tissue engineering we can create biological substitutes to repair or replace failing
organs or tissues. Synthetic biopolymer-based nanocomposites are of interest for use in …

Nanocomposites have emerged in the last two decades as an efficient strategy to upgrade
the structural and functional properties of synthetic polymers. Aliphatic polyesters as …

The unidirectional growth of materials to form nanowires or nanotubes has attracted
enormous interest in recent years. Within the different classes of tubes made of organic or …

Among the numerous attempts to integrate tissue engineering concepts into strategies to
repair nearly all parts of the body, neuronal repair stands out. This is partially due to the …

The interaction of cells and tissues with artificial materials designed for applications in
biotechnologies and in medicine is governed by the physical and chemical properties of the …