Background The success of biomedical implants in orthopedic and dental applications is
usually limited due to insufficient bone‐implant integration, and implant‐related infections …

Drug-free antibacterial therapy, such as photodynamic therapy and chemodynamic therapy,
has become a mainstream in the treatment of implant-associated infection (IAI) due to its …

Compared with non-degradable materials, biodegradable biomaterials play an increasingly
important role in the repairing of severe bone defects, and have attracted extensive attention …

Tissue engineering is a promising strategy to treat tissue and organ loss or damage caused
by injury or disease. During the past two decades, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have …

Nickel–titanium (NiTi) is a shape-memory alloy, a type of material whose name is derived
from its ability to recover its original shape upon heating to a certain temperature. NiTi falls …

Due to their potential renewable materials-based tissue engineering scaffolds has gained
more attention. Therefore, researchers are looking for new materials to be used as a …

Biomaterials have ushered the field of tissue engineering and regeneration into a new era
with the development of advanced composites. Among these, the composites of inorganic …

Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is a thermoplastic polymer with strong mechanical properties,
good chemical stability and excellent biocompatibility. Since PEEK was approved as an …

Metallic biomaterials are widely used in implants to strengthen, repair, or replace damaged
bone tissue, and their material characteristics have direct influences on short-and long-term …

Large bone defects remain an unsolved clinical challenge because of the lack of effective
vascularization in newly formed bone tissue. 3D bioprinting is a fabrication technology with …