Fabrication and evaluation of polylactic acid/ pectin composite scaffold via freeze extraction for tissue engineering

• Main Authors: Anwar Hamzah, Mohd Syahir, Abd Razak, Saiful Izwan, Abdul Kadir, Mohammed Rafiq, Mohd Bohari, Siti Pauliena, Mat Nayan, Nadirul Hasraf, Thangaraj Anand, Joseph Sahaya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: DE GRUYTER 2020
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6819/1/AJ%202020%20%28432%29.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6819/; https://doi.org/10.1515/polyeng-2019-0377
• Institution: Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

This work reports the fabrication and characterizations of porous scaffold made up of polylactic acid (PLA) with the inclusion of pectin (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11wt%) for potential tissue engineering material. The composite scaffold was prepared using a facile method of freeze extraction. Based on the phys...