Silk fibroin as sustainable advanced material: material properties and characteristics, processing, and applications

A Reizabal, CM Costa, L Pérez‐Álvarez… - Advanced Functional …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biobased resources are proposed as next‐generation materials for advanced application.
Among them, silk fibroin, a protein‐based material generally obtained from Bombyx mori …

Existing and novel biomaterials for bone tissue engineering

P Dec, A Modrzejewski, A Pawlik - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
The treatment of bone defects remains one of the major challenges in modern clinical
practice. Nowadays, with the increased incidence of bone disease in an aging population …

Silk fibroin/hydroxyapatite composites for bone tissue engineering

M Farokhi, F Mottaghitalab, S Samani… - Biotechnology …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Silk fibroin (SF) is a natural fibrous polymer with strong potential for many biomedical
applications. SF has attracted interest in the field of bone tissue engineering due to its …

Current progress in application of polymeric nanofibers to tissue engineering

S Nemati, S Kim, YM Shin, H Shin - Nano convergence, 2019‏ - Springer
Tissue engineering uses a combination of cell biology, chemistry, and biomaterials to
fabricate three dimensional (3D) tissues that mimic the architecture of extracellular matrix …

Bone regeneration: Biomaterials as local delivery systems with improved osteoinductive properties

V Martin, A Bettencourt - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Bone is a mineralized conjunctive tissue, with a unique trauma healing capability. However,
the replacement or regeneration of lost bone is not always successful and becomes more …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments of silk-based scaffolds for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications: a special focus on the advancement of 3D …

AM Shabbirahmed, R Sekar, LA Gomez, MR Sekhar… - Biomimetics, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Regenerative medicine has received potential attention around the globe, with improving
cell performances, one of the necessary ideas for the advancements of regenerative …

Insight into silk-based biomaterials: from physicochemical attributes to recent biomedical applications

G Janani, M Kumar, D Chouhan, JC Moses… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Silk, a natural biopolymer, has been used clinically as suture material over thousands of
years and has received much impetus for a plethora of biomedical applications in the last …

Recent advances in electrospun nanofibers for some biomedical applications

S Sabra, DM Ragab, MM Agwa, S Rohani - European Journal of …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Nanofibers provide multiple merits for the delivery of many therapeutic agents with versatile
biomedical applications. With the fast recent advancement in nanotechnology, nanofibers …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of polyester/hydroxyapatite composites for bone tissue repairing

Z Fu, J Cui, B Zhao, SGF Shen, K Lin - Journal of Orthopaedic Translation, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Objectives The polyester/hydroxyapatite (polyester/HA) composites play an important role in
bone tissue repairing, mostly because they mimic the composition and structure of naturally …

[HTML][HTML] Silk fibroin nanocomposites as tissue engineering scaffolds–A systematic review

A Zuluaga-Velez, A Quintero-Martinez… - Biomedicine & …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Silk fibroin is a protein with intrinsic characteristics that make it a good candidate as a
scaffold for tissue engineering. Recent works have enhanced its benefits by adding …