Degradation and stabilization of polyurethane elastomers

F Xie, T Zhang, P Bryant, V Kurusingal… - Progress in Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Polyurethane elastomers have a combination of excellent mechanical, physical and
chemical properties along with exceptional biocompatibility. Therefore, these elastomeric …

A critical review of fibrous polyurethane-based vascular tissue engineering scaffolds

S Fathi-Karkan, B Banimohamad-Shotorbani… - Journal of biological …, 2022 - Springer
Certain polymeric materials such as polyurethanes (PUs) are the most prevalent class of
used biomaterials in regenerative medicine and have been widely explored as vascular …

Stretching induced alignment of graphene nanoplatelets in polyurethane films for superior in-plane thermal conductivity and electromagnetic interference shielding

D Mani, MC Vu, CS Lim, JB Kim, TH Jeong, HJ Kim… - Carbon, 2023 - Elsevier
The rapid innovation of flexible smart electronics has increased the demand for flexible
thermally conductive films with the high performance of electromagnetic interference …

Synthesis and characterization of biodegradable polyurethane films based on HDI with hydrolyzable crosslinked bonds and a homogeneous structure for biomedical …

BR Barrioni, SM de Carvalho, RL Oréfice… - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Synthetic biodegradable polymers are considered strategic in the biomaterials field and are
used in various applications. Among the polymers used as biomaterials, polyurethanes …

Oxygen-releasing antioxidant cryogel scaffolds with sustained oxygen delivery for tissue engineering applications

PA Shiekh, A Singh, A Kumar - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2018 - ACS Publications
With the advancement in biomaterial sciences, tissue-engineered scaffolds are developing
as a promising strategy for the regeneration of damaged tissues. However, only a few of …

Fabrication and characterization of flexible medical-grade TPU filament for fused deposition modeling 3DP technology

A Haryńska, I Gubanska, J Kucinska-Lipka, H Janik - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
The possibility of using additive manufacturing (AM) in the medicine area has created new
opportunities in health care. This has contributed to a sharp increase in demand for 3D …

Solving the plastic dilemma: the fungal and bacterial biodegradability of polyurethanes

P Bhavsar, M Bhave, HK Webb - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2023 - Springer
Polyurethane (PU) is a plastic polymer which, due to its various desirable characteristics,
has been applied extensively in domestic, industrial and medical fields for the past 50 years …

The evolution of polyurethane heart valve replacements: How chemistry translates to the clinic

M Crago, A Lee, S Farajikhah, F Oveissi… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Current heart valve replacements (HVRs) fail to comprehensively capture the physiological
behavior of native heart valve tissues, allowing the burden of valvular heart disease to …

Scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering from a blend of polyethersulfone and polyurethane polymers

M Wasyłeczko, E Remiszewska, W Sikorska, J Dulnik… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, one of the main goals of cartilage tissue engineering has been to find
appropriate scaffolds for hyaline cartilage regeneration, which could serve as a matrix for …

Polyurethanes and Their Biomedical Applications

S Azarmgin, B Torabinejad… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The tunable mechanical properties of polyurethanes (PUs), due to their extensive structural
diversity and biocompatibility, have made them promising materials for biomedical …