Hyaline cartilage is the nonlinear, inhomogeneous, anisotropic, poro-viscoelastic connective
tissue that serves as friction-reducing and load-bearing cushion in synovial joints and is vital …

As a type of elastomeric polymers, non-degradable polyurethanes (PUs) have a long history
of being used in clinics, whereas biodegradable PUs have been developed in recent …

Cartilage tissue engineering is emerging as a technique for the regeneration of cartilage
tissue damaged due to disease or trauma. Since cartilage lacks regenerative capabilities, it …

Growing demand for tissues and organs for transplantation and the inability to meet this
need using by autogeneic (from the host) or allogeneic (from the same species) sources has …

Biodegradable materials that can undergo degradation in vivo are commonly employed to
manufacture tissue engineering scaffolds, by techniques including the customized 3D …

Critical‐size bone defects usually require the insertion of autogenous bone graft to heal.
Harvesting of bone is traumatic and results in high morbidity at the donor site. A potential …

Polyurethane was prepared from hexamethylene diisocyanate (HMDI) and polycaprolactone
diol (PCL) with stoichiometry ratio of two in a reactor to form prepolymer. Polyvinyl alcohol …

Traditional crosslinked polyester elastomers are inherently weak, and the strategy of
increasing crosslink density to improve their mechanical properties makes them brittle …

Focusing on a lucrative and increasingly important area of biomedicine, the Biomaterials
Fabrication and Processing Handbook brings together various biomaterials production and …

Although a growing knowledge on the field of tissue engineering of articular cartilage exists,
reconstruction or in-vitro growth of functional hyaline tissue still represents an unmet …