Plasma modification techniques for natural polymer-based drug delivery systems

P Bhatt, V Kumar, V Subramaniyan, K Nagarajan… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Natural polymers have attracted significant attention in drug delivery applications due to
their biocompatibility, biodegradability, and versatility. However, their surface properties …

Cross-linking strategies for electrospun gelatin scaffolds

CE Campiglio, N Contessi Negrini, S Farè, L Draghi - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Electrospinning is an exceptional technology to fabricate sub-micrometric fiber scaffolds for
regenerative medicine applications and to mimic the morphology and the chemistry of the …

Non-toxic crosslinking of electrospun gelatin nanofibers for tissue engineering and biomedicine—A review

A Ehrmann - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Electrospinning can be used to prepare nanofiber mats from diverse polymers, polymer
blends, or polymers doped with other materials. Amongst this broad range of usable …

The use of collagen-based materials in bone tissue engineering

L Fan, Y Ren, S Emmert, I Vučković… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Synthetic bone substitute materials (BSMs) are becoming the general trend, replacing
autologous grafting for bone tissue engineering (BTE) in orthopedic research and clinical …

Bio-functional electrospun nanomaterials: From topology design to biological applications

J Han, L Xiong, X Jiang, X Yuan, Y Zhao… - Progress in Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is a highly versatile technology to process polymers or related materials into
fibrous materials with diameters ranging from micrometer to nanometer scale. In the early …

Cross-linking agents for electrospinning-based bone tissue engineering

DJ Lim - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Electrospun nanofibers are promising bone tissue scaffolds that support bone healing due to
the body's structural similarity to the extracellular matrix (ECM). However, the insufficient …

Core–shell fibers: design, roles, and controllable release strategies in tissue engineering and drug delivery

MF Abdullah, T Nuge, A Andriyana, BC Ang… - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
The key attributes of core–shell fibers are their ability to preserve bioactivity of incorporated-
sensitive biomolecules (such as drug, protein, and growth factor) and subsequently control …

Current trends in biomedical hydrogels: From traditional crosslinking to plasma-assisted synthesis

KLM Taaca, EI Prieto, MR Vasquez Jr - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
The use of materials to restore or replace the functions of damaged body parts has been
proven historically. Any material can be considered as a biomaterial as long as it performs …

Effect of cold plasma treatment on electrospun nanofibers properties: A review

M Dufay, M Jimenez, S Degoutin - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electrospinning of polymer materials is a widely used technique, providing nanofibrous mats
with high surface to volume ratio and porosity, which show a great interest in many fields …

[HTML][HTML] Protein materials as sustainable non-and minimally invasive strategies for biomedical applications

MB Stie, K Kalouta, V Vetri, V Foderà - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Protein-based materials have found applications in a wide range of biomedical fields
because of their biocompatibility, biodegradability and great versatility. Materials of different …