The return of a forgotten polymer—Polycaprolactone in the 21st century

MA Woodruff, DW Hutmacher - Progress in polymer science, 2010 - Elsevier
During the resorbable-polymer-boom of the 1970s and 1980s, polycaprolactone (PCL) was
used extensively in the biomaterials field and a number of drug-delivery devices. Its …

Matrices and scaffolds for delivery of bioactive molecules in bone and cartilage tissue engineering

SH Lee, H Shin - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Regeneration of bone and cartilage defects can be accelerated by localized delivery of
appropriate growth factors incorporated within biodegradable carriers. The carrier …

Strategic design and fabrication of engineered scaffolds for articular cartilage repair

Z Izadifar, X Chen, W Kulyk - Journal of functional biomaterials, 2012 - mdpi.com
Damage to articular cartilage can eventually lead to osteoarthritis (OA), a debilitating,
degenerative joint disease that affects millions of people around the world. The limited …

Highly biodegradable and tough polylactic acid–cellulose nanocrystal composite

JK Muiruri, S Liu, WS Teo, J Kong… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Poly (l-lactide) cellulose nanocrystals-filled nanocomposites were fabricated by blending of
cellulose nanocrystals-g-rubber-g-poly (d-lactide)(CNC-rD-PDLA) and commercial PLLA, in …

Biodegradable and renewable poly (lactide)–lignin composites: synthesis, interface and toughening mechanism

Y Sun, L Yang, X Lu, C He - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Poly (lactide)(PLA)–lignin composites were fabricated by blending lignin-g-rubber-g-poly (D-
lactide) copolymer particles and commercial poly (L-lactide)(PLLA) in chloroform. To …

Developmental engineering: a new paradigm for the design and manufacturing of cell-based products. Part I: from three-dimensional cell growth to biomimetics of in …

P Lenas, M Moos Jr, FP Luyten - Tissue Engineering Part B …, 2009 - liebertpub.com
Recent advances in developmental biology, systems biology, and network science are
converging to poise the heretofore largely empirical field of tissue engineering on the brink …

Essential oil—loaded nanofibers for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications: a systematic mini-review

I Partheniadis, G Stathakis, D Tsalavouti, J Heinämäki… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Essential oils (EOs) have been widely exploited for their biological properties (mainly as
antimicrobials) in the food industry. Encapsulation of EOs has opened the way to the …

Fully synthetic implantable multi-phased scaffold

HH Lu, J Spalazzi - US Patent 8,753,391, 2014 - Google Patents
2010-06-18 Assigned to TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW
YORK, THE reassignment TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW …

Fabrication of electrospun poly (L-lactide-co-ɛ-caprolactone)/collagen nanoyarn network as a novel, three-dimensional, macroporous, aligned scaffold for tendon …

Y Xu, J Wu, H Wang, H Li, N Di, L Song… - … Engineering Part C …, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Tissue engineering techniques using novel scaffolding materials offer potential alternatives
for managing tendon disorders. An ideal tendon tissue engineered scaffold should mimic the …

Effect of porosities of bilayered porous scaffolds on spontaneous osteochondral repair in cartilage tissue engineering

Z Pan, P Duan, X Liu, H Wang, L Cao… - Regenerative …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Poly (lactide-co-glycolide)-bilayered scaffolds with the same porosity or different
ones on the two layers were fabricated, and the porosity effect on in vivo repairing of the …