Background Starch is a biodegradable, renewable, low-cost, and biocompatible
carbohydrate. Such characteristics make this polymer suitable for applications in various …

Despite the advances in medicine, wound healing is still challenging and piques the interest
of biomedical engineers to design effective wound dressings using natural and artificial …

Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a natural-source biopolymer of the polyhydroxyalkanoate
(PHA) family. Nanofibrous scaffolds prepared from this biological macromolecule have …

The choice of materials and preparation methods are the most important factors affecting the
final characteristics of the scaffolds. In this study, cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) as a nano …

In the current investigation, the bioactive glasses (BGs) in 60SiO 2–26CaO-4P 2 O 5–5SrO-
xMgO-(5-x) Ag 2 O systems (x= 0–5 mol.%) were fabricated via the sol-gel method. The …

Blend nanofibers composed of synthetic and natural polymers with carbon nanomaterial,
have a great potential for bone tissue engineering. In this study, the electrospun …

The electrospun scaffolds could mimic the highly hierarchical structure of extracellular matrix
(ECM). Modern tissue engineering focuses on the properties of these microstructures …

Over the past decades, limited strategies have been developed to study nanomechanical
properties. The in‐depth study on the nanomechanical properties of electrospun scaffolds …

Among different techniques used to fabricate nanofibers, the most versatile process is
conceivably electrospinning. This chapter discusses electrospinning principles …

O cancro constitui uma das principais causas de morte no mundo e embora as estratégias
predominantes para o tratamento de tumores malignos ainda sejam a remoção cirúrgica …