Polymers are widely used materials in aerospace, automotive, construction, medical devices
and pharmaceuticals. Polymers are being promoted rapidly due to their ease of …

Near infrared (NIR) luminescent materials are an exciting playground for
telecommunications, biosciences and solar energy conversion. In particular, transition metal …

Biomaterials are used to engineer functional restoration of different tissues to improve
human health and the quality of life. Biomaterials can be natural or synthetic. Additive …

Standard cancer therapies sometimes fail to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs to tumor cells
in a safe and effective manner. Nanotechnology takes the lead in providing new therapeutic …

Biomaterial-based scaffolds are important cues in tissue engineering (TE) applications.
Recent advances in TE have led to the development of suitable scaffold architecture for …

This review encompasses the most important advances in liver functions and hepatotoxicity
and analyzes which mechanisms can be studied in vitro. In a complex architecture of nested …

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 …

Additive manufacturing (AM) is pushing towards industrial applications. But despite good
sales of AM machines, there are still several challenges hindering a broad economic use of …

Selective laser sintering (SLS) is a solid freeform fabrication technique, developed by Carl
Deckard for his master's thesis at the University of Texas, patented in 1989. SLS …

Biodegradable polymers have been used in biomedical applications generally, and in tissue
engineering especially, due to good physical and biological properties. Poly …