25th anniversary article: Rational design and applications of hydrogels in regenerative medicine

N Annabi, A Tamayol, JA Uquillas, M Akbari… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymer‐based materials with high water content and physical
characteristics that resemble the native extracellular matrix. Because of their remarkable …

Nanofibers for biomedical and healthcare applications

R Rasouli, A Barhoum, M Bechelany… - Macromolecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Unique features of nanofibers provide enormous potential in the field of biomedical and
healthcare applications. Many studies have proven the extreme potential of nanofibers in …

A review of key challenges of electrospun scaffolds for tissue‐engineering applications

S Khorshidi, A Solouk, H Mirzadeh… - Journal of tissue …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Tissue engineering holds great promise to develop functional constructs resembling the
structural organization of native tissues to improve or replace biological functions, with the …

Fiber-based tissue engineering: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

A Tamayol, M Akbari, N Annabi, A Paul… - Biotechnology …, 2013 - Elsevier
Tissue engineering aims to improve the function of diseased or damaged organs by creating
biological substitutes. To fabricate a functional tissue, the engineered construct should …

Strategies to tune electrospun scaffold porosity for effective cell response in tissue engineering

JM Ameer, AK Pr, N Kasoju - Journal of functional biomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering aims to develop artificial human tissues by culturing cells on a scaffold in
the presence of biochemical cues. Properties of scaffold such as architecture and …

Fabrication of large pores in electrospun nanofibrous scaffolds for cellular infiltration: a review

S Zhong, Y Zhang, CT Lim - Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews, 2012 - liebertpub.com
In the past decade, considerable effort has been made to construct biomimetic scaffolds from
electrospun nanofibers for engineering different tissues. However, one of the major …

Mimicking white matter tract topography using core–shell electrospun nanofibers to examine migration of malignant brain tumors

SS Rao, MT Nelson, R Xue, JK DeJesus, MS Viapiano… - Biomaterials, 2013 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), one of the deadliest forms of human cancer, is
characterized by its high infiltration capacity, partially regulated by the neural extracellular …

Laser direct writing of micro-and nano-scale medical devices

SD Gittard, RJ Narayan - Expert review of medical devices, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Laser-based direct writing of materials has undergone significant development in recent
years. The ability to modify a variety of materials at small length scales and using short …

Femtosecond laser ablation enhances cell infiltration into three-dimensional electrospun scaffolds

BLP Lee, H Jeon, A Wang, Z Yan, J Yu… - Acta biomaterialia, 2012 - Elsevier
Electrospun scaffolds are used extensively in tissue-engineering applications as they offer a
cell-friendly microenvironment. However, one major limitation is the dense fibers, small pore …

A review of electrospinning manipulation techniques to direct fiber deposition and maximize pore size

KP Feltz, EAG Kalaf, C Chen, RS Martin, SA Sell - Electrospinning, 2017 - degruyter.com
Electrospinning has been widely accepted for several decades by the tissue engineering
and regenerative medicine community as a technique for nanofiber production. Owing to the …