Electrically conductive polymers and composites for biomedical applications

G Kaur, R Adhikari, P Cass, M Bown, P Gunatillake - Rsc Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrically conductive polymeric materials have recently attracted considerable interest from
academic and industrial researchers to explore their potential in biomedical applications …

Copolymer/clay nanocomposites for biomedical applications

S Murugesan, T Scheibel - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoclays still hold a great strength in biomedical nanotechnology applications due to their
exceptional properties despite the development of several new nanostructured materials …

Conductive polymers and composites-based systems: An incipient stride in drug delivery and therapeutics realm

GK Raj, E Singh, U Hani, K Ramesh, S Talath… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Novel therapies and drug delivery systems (DDS) emphasis on localized, personalized,
triggered, and regulated drug administration have heavily implicated electrically responsive …

Synthesis, characterization and antioxidant activity of a novel electroactive and biodegradable polyurethane for cardiac tissue engineering application

N Baheiraei, H Yeganeh, J Ai, R Gharibi… - Materials Science and …, 2014 - Elsevier
There has been a growing trend towards applying conducting polymers for electrically
excitable cells to increase electrical signal propagation within the cell-loaded substrates. A …

New insights into the microbial degradation of polyurethanes

N Mahajan, P Gupta - RSC Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Frequent and frequently deliberate release of plastics leads to accumulation of plastic waste
in the environment which is an ever increasing ecological threat. Plastic waste represents 20 …

Biodegradable and antithrombogenic chitosan/elastin blended polyurethane electrospun membrane for vascular tissue integration

T Selvaras, SA Alshamrani, R Gopal… - … Research Part B …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Current commercialized vascular membranes to treat coronary heart disease (CHD) such as
Dacron and expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) have been associated with …

Revolutionizing drug delivery and therapeutics: the biomedical applications of conductive polymers and composites-based systems

S Paramshetti, M Angolkar, A Al Fatease… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The first conductive polymers (CPs) were developed during the 1970s as a unique class of
organic substances with properties that are electrically and optically comparable to those of …

Electrospun materials based on polymer and biopolymer blends—a review

M Tahir, S Vicini, A Sionkowska - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review covers recent developments and progress in polymer and biopolymer blending
and material preparation by electrospinning. Electrospinning is a technique that is used to …

Preparation and characterization of diatomite and hydroxyapatite reinforced porous polyurethane foam biocomposites

SD Mustafov, F Sen, MO Seydibeyoglu - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Porous three-dimensional (3D) polyurethane-based biocomposites were produced
utilizing diatomite and hydroxyapatite as fillers. Diatomite and Hydroxyapatite (HA) were …

Graphene/polyurethane composites: fabrication and evaluation of electrical conductivity, mechanical properties and cell viability

G Kaur, R Adhikari, P Cass, M Bown, MDM Evans… - Rsc Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently conducting and electroactive polymers have received the attention of researchers
to explore their potential in biomedical applications. Polyurethanes (PUs) are of particular …