Sustained releasing sponge-like 3D scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications

• Main Authors: Chamundeswari, Vidya Narasimhan, Lui, Yuan Siang, Chuah, Yon Jin, Tan, Jing Shi, Wang, Dong-An, Loo, Joachim Say Chye
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials; Spongy Scaffold; Biodegradable Polymers
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/92353; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48514
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Tissue engineering (TE) is envisaged to play a vital role in improving quality of life by restoring, maintaining or enhancing tissue and organ functions. TE scaffolds that are two-dimensional in structure suffer from undesirable issues, such as pore blockage, and do not closely mimic the native extr...