Polymers for 3D printing and customized additive manufacturing

SC Ligon, R Liska, J Stampfl, M Gurr… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Additive manufacturing (AM) alias 3D printing translates computer-aided design (CAD)
virtual 3D models into physical objects. By digital slicing of CAD, 3D scan, or tomography …

Toughening of photo-curable polymer networks: a review

SC Ligon-Auer, M Schwentenwein, C Gorsche… - Polymer …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Photo-curable resins based on multifunctional acrylate monomers are commonly applied as
thin films (eg protective coatings, printing inks, etc.) and in recent years are also used for the …

Fabrication of polyurethane and polyurethane based composite fibres by the electrospinning technique for soft tissue engineering of cardiovascular system

J Kucinska-Lipka, I Gubanska, H Janik… - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is a unique technique, which provides forming of polymeric scaffolds for soft
tissue engineering, which include tissue scaffolds for soft tissues of the cardiovascular …

Electrospun fibrous scaffolds for small-diameter blood vessels: a review

NK Awad, H Niu, U Ali, YS Morsi, T Lin - Membranes, 2018 - mdpi.com
Small-diameter blood vessels (SDBVs) are still a challenging task to prepare due to the
occurrence of thrombosis formation, intimal hyperplasia, and aneurysmal dilation …

Bio-inspired hybrid scaffold of zinc oxide-functionalized multi-wall carbon nanotubes reinforced polyurethane nanofibers for bone tissue engineering

BK Shrestha, S Shrestha, AP Tiwari, JI Kim, SW Ko… - Materials & Design, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, we prepared nanotopographical polyurethane (PU)-based bioactive scaffolds
that incorporated uniformly dispersed functionalized multi-wall carbon nanotubes …

Biodegradable, thermoplastic polyurethane grafts for small diameter vascular replacements

H Bergmeister, N Seyidova, C Schreiber, M Strobl… - Acta biomaterialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Biodegradable vascular grafts with sufficient in vivo performance would be more
advantageous than permanent non-degradable prostheses. These constructs would be …

Biocompatible, degradable thermoplastic polyurethane based on polycaprolactone-block-polytetrahydrofuran-block-polycaprolactone copolymers for soft tissue …

HY Mi, X Jing, BN Napiwocki, BS Hagerty… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Biodegradable synthetic polymers have been widely used as tissue engineering scaffold
materials. Even though they have shown excellent biocompatibility, they have failed to …

Green chemistry for biomimetic materials: Synthesis and electrospinning of high-molecular-weight polycarbonate-based nonisocyanate polyurethanes

D Visser, H Bakhshi, K Rogg, E Fuhrmann… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conventional synthesis routes for thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) still require the use of
isocyanates and tin-based catalysts, which pose considerable safety and environmental …

Tissue-engineered vascular grafts: balance of the four major requirements

J Wu, C Hu, Z Tang, Q Yu, X Liu, H Chen - Colloid and Interface Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tissue-engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) have emerged as a new choice for substitution
of damaged blood vessels. A passage of a new blood vessel can be regenerated through …

Degradation of polyurethanes for cardiovascular applications

JV Cauich-Rodríguez, LH Chan-Chan… - Advances in …, 2013 - books.google.com
Polyurethanes are a family of polymers used in a variety of biomedical applications but
mainly in the cardiovascular field due to their good physicochemical and mechanical …