Abstract
Development of scaffolds in tissue engineering applications is growing in a fast pace. Scaffolds play a pivotal role in scaffold-based tissue engineering. The scaffolds must possess some important characteristics. Scaffolds should be biocompatible, should have appropriate porosity and porous microstructure and proper surface chemistry to allow cell attachment, proliferation and differentiation. Scaffolds should possess adequate mechanical properties and controlled biodegradability. There are many techniques available to fabricate scaffolds including freeze drying, electrospinning and rapid prototyping. Some of these techniques have gained much attention due to their versatility. This chapter points up the protocols for the fabrication and characterization of appropriate scaffolds for tissue engineering using biopolymers and composite biomaterials.
Mim Mim Lim and Naznin Sultana.
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Sultana, N., Hassan, M.I., Lim, M.M. (2015). Scaffold Fabrication Protocols. In: Composite Synthetic Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. SpringerBriefs in Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09755-8_2
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