“Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice”, said the Nobel Laureate in medicine Martin H. Fischer. A main objective for engineers working in the biomedical field is to provide tools to medical doctors which help them in making accurate diagnose. In particular, getting access to in vivo physiological parameters in real-time is of great interest. The concept presented in this thesi...

A versatile and convenient way to produce bioactive poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) electrospun nanofibrous scaffolds is described. PLA and PCL are extensively used as biocompatible scaffold materials for tissue engineering. Here, biobased nano graphene oxide dots (nGO) are incorporated in PLA or PCL electrospun scaffolds during the electrospinning process aiming to enhan...

The present work aims at investigating the thermal properties of a wide range of semicrystalline nanocomposites based on poly(amide)-6 (PA6), ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA), poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) or polypropylene (iPP), in combination with various types of nanofillers (layered silicates, carbon nanotubes, sepiolite, or POSS). We report on the effect of nanofillers on the quasi-isot...

In this study, new composite bisphosphonate delivery systems were obtained from polyurethanes (PUs) and nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite (HA). The biodegradable PUs were first synthesized from poly(ε-caprolactone) diols (PCL diols), poly(ethylene adipate) diol, 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate, 1,4-butanediol and HA. Moreover, the PCL diols were synthesized by the ring-opening polymerization cataly...

The presented paper investigated the influence of brewers’ spent grain (BSG) extrusionparameters on photo-oxidative resistance poly(ε-caprolactone)-based wood polymer composites.Filler samples characterized by higher melanoidin content were more efficient in hindering polymerdegradation, inhibiting decomposition amorphous phase. As a result, deteriorationof mechanical performance was limited, w...