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Recent overviews in functional polymer composites for biomedical applications
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article Review)
Composite materials are considered as an essential part of our daily life due to their outstanding properties and diverse applications. Polymer composites are a widespread class of composites, characterized by low cost, ...
Recent advances in electrospun polycaprolactone based scaffolds for wound healing and skin bioengineering applications
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Electrospun poly(-caprolactone) (PCL) scaffolds incorporated with bioactive materials play a key role in tissue engineering applications due to their extra cellular matrix (ECM) mimicking property, biocompatibility and ...
Photopolymerization of Polymeric Composites in Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering, and Other Biomedical Applications
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Springer
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Photopolymerization of polymeric composites has been widely used in several biomedical applications including, drug delivery, tissue engineering, and cell encapsulation as it combines the properties of both the photopolymerizable ...
Nanoengineered biomimetic hydrogels for guiding human stem cell osteogenesis in three dimensional microenvironments
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Royal Society of Chemistry
, 2016 , Article)
The ability to modulate stem cell differentiation in a three dimensional (3D) microenvironment for bone tissue engineering in the absence of exogenous pharmaceutical agents such as bone morphogenic protein (BMP-2) remains ...
Introduction to Tissue Engineering
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
Tissue engineering is a recent field that aims at developing or regenerating artificial tissues and organs. The idea of replacing a damaged body part using materials from natural origin was proposed and even applied over ...
Tissue engineering for artificial organs: Regenerative medicine, smart diagnostics and personalized medicine
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
, 2016 , Book)
A comprehensive overview of the latest achievements, trends, and the current state of the art of this important and rapidly expanding field. Clearly and logically structured, the first part of the book explores the ...
Biomaterials in Tissue Engineering
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
, 2016 , Book chapter)
In the field of tissue engineering (TE), cells are recruited with scaffolds and soluble factors to make artificial tissues. The scaffolds aim to re-create the native extracellular matrix (ECM) for the cells in vitro, ...
3D printed nanocomposites for tailored cardiovascular tissue constructs: A minireview
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2021 , Article)
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) with escalating death rates pose one of the greatest threats to global health and well-being. Thus, developing effective interventions to combat CVD are of critical importance. 3D printing ...
Titanium-Containing Silicate-Based Sol-Gel Bioactive Glass: Development, Characterization, and Applications
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American Chemical Society
, 2021 , Article)
Bioactive glasses are surface-reactive glasses that, when placed in physiological fluid, undergo a transformation from glass to hydroxyapatite. Doping the bioactive glass with metallic ions can impart desirable and unique ...
Yttrium oxide nanoparticle loaded scaffolds with enhanced cell adhesion and vascularization for tissue engineering applications
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
In situ tissue engineering is emerging as a novel approach in tissue engineering to repair damaged tissues by boosting the natural ability of the body to heal itself. This can be achieved by providing suitable signals and ...