Additive manufacturing of material scaffolds for bone regeneration: toward application in the clinics

C Garot, G Bettega, C Picart - Advanced functional materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Additive manufacturing (AM) allows the fabrication of customized bone scaffolds in terms of
shape, pore size, material type, and mechanical properties. Combined with the possibility to …

Microrobots for minimally invasive medicine

BJ Nelson, IK Kaliakatsos… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Microrobots have the potential to revolutionize many aspects of medicine. These untethered,
wirelessly controlled and powered devices will make existing therapeutic and diagnostic …

Porous media characterization using Minkowski functionals: Theories, applications and future directions

RT Armstrong, JE McClure, V Robins, Z Liu… - Transport in Porous …, 2019 - Springer
An elementary question in porous media research is in regard to the relationship between
structure and function. In most fields, the porosity and permeability of porous media are …

Scaffolds and coatings for bone regeneration

HF Pereira, IF Cengiz, FS Silva, RL Reis… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
Bone tissue has an astonishing self-healing capacity yet only for non-critical size defects (<
6 mm) and clinical intervention is needed for critical-size defects and beyond that along with …

Low temperature additive manufacturing of three dimensional scaffolds for bone-tissue engineering applications: Processing related challenges and property …

A Kumar, S Mandal, S Barui, R Vasireddi… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, additive manufacturing (AM) has made significant progress towards
the fabrication of biomaterials and tissue engineering constructs. One direction of research …

Pore throat size and connectivity determine bone and tissue ingrowth into porous implants: three-dimensional micro-CT based structural analyses of porous bioactive …

B Otsuki, M Takemoto, S Fujibayashi, M Neo, T Kokubo… - Biomaterials, 2006 - Elsevier
A porous structure comprises pores and pore throats with a complex three-dimensional (3D)
network structure, and many investigators have described the relationship between average …

Assessment of bone ingrowth into porous biomaterials using MICRO-CT

AC Jones, CH Arns, AP Sheppard, DW Hutmacher… - Biomaterials, 2007 - Elsevier
The three-dimensional (3D) structure and architecture of biomaterial scaffolds play a critical
role in bone formation as they affect the functionality of the tissue-engineered constructs …

Processed bamboo as a novel formaldehyde-free high-performance furniture biocomposite

S Ge, NL Ma, S Jiang, YS Ok, SS Lam… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We used an innovative approach involving hot pressing, low energy consumption, and no
adhesive to transform bamboo biomass into a natural sustainable fiber-based biocomposite …

Cartilage repair using hyaluronan hydrogel-encapsulated human embryonic stem cell-derived chondrogenic cells

WS Toh, EH Lee, XM Guo, JKY Chan, CH Yeow… - Biomaterials, 2010 - Elsevier
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) have the potential to offer a virtually unlimited source
of chondrogenic cells for use in cartilage repair and regeneration. We have recently shown …

Biomimetic design of mussel-derived bioactive peptides for dual-functionalization of titanium-based biomaterials

G Pan, S Sun, W Zhang, R Zhao, W Cui… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Specific cell adhesion and osteogenicity are both crucial factors for the long-term success of
titanium implants. In this work, two mussel-derived bioactive peptides were designed to one …