The past decade has seen the rapid development of new strategies for the design of
biodegradable macromolecular compounds, with properly suited architecture and tailored …

Nature has always provided, in considerable amounts and variety, polymeric materials with
interesting compositions and structures and with great potential to be used in biomedical …

Conventional materials technology has yielded clear improvements in regenerative
medicine. Ideally, however, a replacement material should mimic the living tissue …

The susceptibility of starch-based biomaterials to enzymatic degradation by amylolytic
enzymes (glucoamylase and α-amylase) was investigated by means of incubating the …

Starch-based biomaterials and scaffolds have been proposed for several biomedical
applications. In the present work new scaffolds based on a 50/50 (wt%) blend of corn …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the natural origin polymers that
are commercially available or currently being studied in different laboratories for tissue …

Our purpose was to evaluate the in vivo endosseous response to three starch‐based
scaffolds implanted in rats (n= 54). We implanted the three scaffold groups; a 50/50 (wt%) …

This work describes the development of a biodegradable matrix, based on chitosan and
starch, with the ability to form a porous structure in situ due to the attack by specific enzymes …

Nowadays, the interest on nanofibrillated cellulose (CNF) has increased owing to its
sustainability and its capacity to improve mechanical and barrier properties of polymeric …

This work proposes the use of nonporous, smart, and stimulus responsive chitosan-based
scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications. The overall vision is to use …