What affects the biocompatibility of polymers?

M Jurak, AE Wiącek, A Ładniak, K Przykaza… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent decades synthetic polymers have gained increasing popularity, and nowadays
they are an integral part of people's daily lives. In addition, owing to their competitive …

[HTML][HTML] Scaffolds in the microbial resistant era: Fabrication, materials, properties and tissue engineering applications

Á Serrano-Aroca, A Cano-Vicent, RS i Serra… - Materials Today Bio, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to microbial infections dramatically affect cell survival and increase the risk of implant
failure, scaffolds produced with antimicrobial materials are now much more likely to be …

Foundations of plasma surface functionalization of polymers for industrial and biological applications

JP Booth, M Mozetič, A Nikiforov… - Plasma Sources Science …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Polymer materials are widely employed in many fields due to the ease with which they can
be formed into complex shapes, their versatile mechanical properties, light weight, and low …

Cold plasma systems and their application in surface treatments for medicine

FL Tabares, I Junkar - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a review of cold plasma setups and the physical and chemical processes
leading to the generation of active species is presented. The emphasis is given to the …

3D printing of antibacterial, biocompatible, and biomimetic hybrid aerogel-based scaffolds with hierarchical porosities via integrating antibacterial peptide-modified silk …

N Karamat-Ullah, Y Demidov, M Schramm… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Scaffold-mediated tissue engineering has become a golden solution for the regeneration of
damaged bone tissues that lack self-regeneration capability. A successful scaffold in bone …

Covalent grafting of 5-aminolevulinic acid onto polylactic acid films and their photodynamic potency in preserving salmon

L Chen, Q Shi, Q Dong, Y Du, Z Peng… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A novel photodynamic inactivation (PDI)-mediated antimicrobial film of polylactic acid/5-
aminolevulinic acid (PLA/ALA) was successfully fabricated by a covalent grafting method …

Green and cost-effective synthesis of zinc oxide thin films by L-ascorbic acid (AA) and their potential for electronics and antibacterial applications

A Taşdemir, N Akman, A Akkaya, R Aydın, B Şahin - Ceramics International, 2022 - Elsevier
The evolution of eco-friendly, green route and cheap technology for synthesizing
nanostructured zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films using plant extracts is a promising choice …

Geometric feature extraction in nanofiber membrane image based on convolution neural network for surface roughness prediction

DH Kang, NK Kim, W Lee, HW Kang - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
As a technique in artificial intelligence, a convolution neural network model has been
utilized to extract average surface roughness from the geometric characteristics of a …

Antimicrobial performance of bioinspired PLA fabricated via one-step plasma etching with silver and copper

DJ da Silva, DS Rosa - ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanotechnology has been adopted to mimic a biological system to design artificial
nanostructures with properties suitable for advanced applications. In this way, bioinspired …

Effect of plasma treatment on accelerated PLA degradation

A Antunes, AS Luyt, P Kasak, O Aljarod… - Express Polymer …, 2021 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Poly (lactic acid)(PLA) has been found to be important in various applications, such
as in the medical, pharmaceutical, and packaging industries. However, the long-term …