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Fibers and 3D Mesh Scaffolds from Biodegradable Starch-Based Blends: Production and Characterization

✍ Scribed by Miroslav P. Pavlov; João F. Mano; Nuno M. Neves; Rui L. Reis

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
283 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
1616-5187

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Abstract

Summary: The aim of this work is the production of fibers from biodegradable polymers to obtain 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering of hard tissues. The scaffolds required for this highly demanding application need to have, as well as the biological and mechanical characteristics, a high degree of porosity with suitable dimensions for cell seeding and proliferation. Furthermore, the open cell porosity should have adequate interconnectivity for a continuous flow of nutrients and outflow of cell metabolic residues as well as to allow cell growth into confluent layers. Blends of corn starch, a natural biodegradable polymer, with other synthetic polymers (poly(ethylene vinyl alcohol), poly(ε‐caprolactone), poly(lactic acid)) were selected for this work because of their good balance of properties, namely biocompatibility, processability and mechanical properties. Melt spinning was used to produce fibers from all the blends and 3D meshes from one of the starch‐poly(lactic acid) blends. The experimental characterization included the evaluation of the tensile mechanical properties and thermal properties of the fibers and the compression stiffness, porosity and degradation behavior of the 3D meshes.

Light microscopy picture of 3D meshes.

magnified imageLight microscopy picture of 3D meshes.

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