Surface potential and charges impact on cell responses on biomaterials interfaces for medical applications

S Metwally, U Stachewicz - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2019 - Elsevier
Surface charge on biomaterials is emerging as a crucial determinant of regulating cells
responses impacting cells signaling in tissue treatment. The dynamic cell-material …

The overview of porous, bioactive scaffolds as instructive biomaterials for tissue regeneration and their clinical translation

G Lutzweiler, A Ndreu Halili, N Engin Vrana - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Porous scaffolds have been employed for decades in the biomedical field where
researchers have been seeking to produce an environment which could approach one of …

Enhanced piezoelectricity of electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride fibers for energy harvesting

PK Szewczyk, A Gradys, SK Kim… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Piezoelectric polymers are promising energy materials for wearable and implantable
applications for replacing bulky batteries in small and flexible electronics. Therefore, many …

Roughness and fiber fraction dominated wetting of electrospun fiber-based porous meshes

PK Szewczyk, DP Ura, S Metwally, J Knapczyk-Korczak… - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Wettability of electrospun fibers is one of the key parameters in the biomedical and filtration
industry. Within this comprehensive study of contact angles on three-dimensional (3D) …

Directional freeze‐casting: A bioinspired method to assemble multifunctional aligned porous structures for advanced applications

MA Shahbazi, M Ghalkhani… - Advanced Engineering …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, the potential of directional freeze‐casting techniques as a very generic, green, and
straightforward approach for the processing of various functional porous materials is …

[HTML][HTML] PLLA scaffolds with controlled surface potential and piezoelectricity for enhancing cell adhesion in tissue engineering

M Polak, K Berniak, PK Szewczyk… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
The effect of the surface potential of biomaterials on cell attachment and development in
regenerative medicine is still an unexplored area driving many regeneration processes …

Surface-potential-controlled cell proliferation and collagen mineralization on electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) fiber scaffolds for bone regeneration

PK Szewczyk, S Metwally… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2018 - ACS Publications
This study represents the unique analysis of the electrospun scaffolds with the controlled
and stable surface potential without any additional biochemical modifications for bone tissue …

The effects of alignment and diameter of electrospun fibers on the cellular behaviors and osteogenesis of BMSCs

J Xie, H Shen, G Yuan, K Lin, J Su - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrospun fiber scaffolds, due to their mimicry of bone extracellular matrix (ECM), have
become an important biomaterial widely applied in bone tissue engineering in recent years …

Methods to characterize electrospun scaffold morphology: a critical review

A Lopez Marquez, IE Gareis, FJ Dias, C Gerhard… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Electrospun scaffolds can imitate the hierarchical structures present in the extracellular
matrix, representing one of the main concerns of modern tissue engineering. They are …

Fabrication and characterization of electrospun silk fibroin/gelatin scaffolds crosslinked with glutaraldehyde vapor

S Mohammadzadehmoghadam, Y Dong - Frontiers in Materials, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Bombyx mori silk fibroin (SF)/gelatin nanofiber mats with different blend ratios of 100/0,
90/10, and 70/30 were prepared by electrospinning and crosslinked with glutaraldehyde …