Magnetic Scaffolds MagS are 3D composite materials, in which magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) used to load a polymeric matrix. Due their wide use various medical applications, there is an increasing demand of advanced techniques for non-destructive quality assessment procedures aimed at verifying the absence defects and, more generally, dedicated characterization MagS. In this framework, TeraHertz...

Electrophoretic deposition (EPD) is a powerful technique to assemble metals, polymer, ceramics, and composite materials into 2D, 3D, intricately shaped implants. Polymers, proteins, peptides can be deposited via EPD at room temperature without affecting their chemical structures. Furthermore, being used deposit multifunctional coatings (i.e., bioactive, antibacterial, biocompatible coatings). R...

Silk is made up of two types of proteinssilk fibroin and sericin. Silk sericin is the main residue (≈2030%) in raw silk fiber. It is composed of 18 amino acids. Solubility, molecular weight, and gelling properties of sericin depends on the methods of isolation i.e. degumming. Sericin has proved itself as a highly potential biomaterial by wide variety of applications in medicine, pharmaceuticals...

Biomimetic materials capable of specific interactions with a biological environment represent the current biomaterial paradigm within tissue engineering and drug delivery [1]. Electrostatically driven layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly [2,3] is a simple and robust method for realizing structurally tailored biomaterial coatings, of thickness ca. 10 nanometers, containing biofunctional ligands. W...

Abstract:Nanostructured titania was synthesized by colloidal and polymeric sol-gel routes. Stable colloidal and polymeric titania sols were prepared by adjusting the proper values of the acid/alkoxide and the water/alkoxide molar ratios. The properties of sols were determined by dynamic light scattering technique and synthesized titania was characterized by thermogravimetry and differential the...

This review is focused on the materials and methods used to fabricate closed-loop systems for type 1 diabetes therapy. Herein, we give a brief overview of current methods used for patient care and discuss two types of possible treatments and the materials used for these therapies-(i) artificial pancreases, comprised of insulin producing cells embedded in a polymeric biomaterial, and (ii) totall...