Each year millions of people sustain traumatic or surgical wounds, which require proper
closure. Conventional closure techniques, including suturing and stapling, have many …

3D printing is an additive manufacturing (AM) technique that has quickly disrupted traditional
design and manufacturing strategies. New structures can be manufactured that could not be …

This review evaluates hydrogel-forming polymers that are suitable for soft tissue engineering
with a focus on materials that can be fabricated using additive manufacturing (3D-printing) …

Photopolymerized hydrogels are being investigated for a number of tissue engineering
applications because of the ability to form these materials in situ in a minimally invasive …

The large number of orthopedic procedures performed each year, including many performed
arthroscopically, have led to great interest in injectable biodegradable materials for …

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are attractive for use in fiber‐reinforced composite materials due
to their very high aspect ratio, combined with outstanding mechanical and electrical …

Over the past years, the fabrication of adequate vascular networks has remained the main
challenge in engineering tissues due to technical difficulties, while the ultimate objective of …

Tissue engineering aims to develop functional substitutes for damaged or diseased tissues
through complex constructs of living cells, bioactive molecules and three-dimensional …

Synthetic scaffold materials are used in tissue engineering for a variety of applications,
including physical supports for the creation of functional tissues, protective gels to aid in …

The present study concerns the preparation and initial characterisation of novel calcium
titanium phosphate-alginate (CTP-alginate) and hydroxyapatite-alginate (HAp-alginate) …