Novel Insights in Fabrication of Scaffolds Using Electrospinning and Electrochemical / Electrophoretic Depositions
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 6910
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fabrication of anisotropic surfaces/scaffolds to study cells behavior according to the contact guidance theory; soft lithography, electrospinning, electrophoretic and electrochemical techniques, sol gel process; natural polymers
Interests: biomaterials for scaffold fabrication with different techniques (i.e. electrospinning, 3D printing, freeze drying, foam replica method), in particular with the aim to design scaffolds with gradients in composition and morphology able to mimic interface tissues; application of electrospun scaffolds for reproductive organs tissue engineering
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute a short communication, full article or review to this Special Issue, entitled ‘Novel Insights in Fabrication of Scaffolds Using Electrospinning and Electrochemical / Electrophoretic Depositions’
Electrospinning enables the fabrication of fibrous scaffolds with fibers in the sub-micrometer range, able to mimic the morphology of the native extra cellular matrix (ECM). Over the years, more than 200 polymers have been electrospun for various applications and the number is still increasing with time. In the last number of years, several researchers have focused their activities on “green electrospinning” and on the use of “benign solvents” for the electrospinning process. The advantages of the use of these solvents are related to avoid the protein denaturation during the process (i.e. collagen), avoid neutralization post-processing due to the traces of toxic solvents in the electrospun mats, and also to have a positive environmental impact.
Electrochemical/electrophoretic depositions have been widely used to deposit on metallic substrates ceramics or polymers, recently these techniques have also been used to fabricate self-standing structures of polymers, blends and composites, allowing different applications in regenerative medicine.
Thanks to the versatility of these fabrication techniques, it will be possible to investigate scaffolds for a wide range of applications to promote the regeneration of hard and soft tissues but also to fabricate scaffolds for drug and gene delivery. The combination of several scaffolds’ fabrication techniques is suitable to obtain complex multilayered structures with gradients in composition, morphology, physical and mechanical properties for interface tissue engineering applications.
Dr. Lina Altomare
Dr. Liliana Liverani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- electro-biofabrication
- natural polymers
- electrospinning
- porous scaffolds
- biomaterials
- benign solvents
- gradients
- electrophoretic deposition
- tissue engineering
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