A promising therapy for retinal diseases is to employ biodegradable scaffolds to deliver retinal progenitor cells (RPCs) for repairing damaged or diseased retinal tissue. In the present study, cationic chitosan-graft-poly(ɛ-caprolactone)/polycaprolactone (CS-PCL/PCL) hybrid scaffolds were successfully prepared by electrospinning. Characterization of the obtained nanofibrous scaffolds indicated ...

The crystallization behavior of poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) in a poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)/PCL blend as well as on a highly orientated PVDF substrate was studied by means of POM, DSC and TEM. The results show that the miscibility of the PVDF/PCL blend and the spherulitic morphology of PVDF varies with the blend ratio. For all the compositions, the pre-existing PVDF crystals accelerated th...

Supercritical CO 2 blown foams of poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) covalent networks are developed through a two-step strategy by taking advantage the thermo-reversible Diels–Alder cycloaddition between furan and maleimide.

Tetranuclear [M 4 (OEt) 8 (L 1 ) (μ-O) 2 ] and dinuclear H (μ-O)] complexes (M = Nb, Ta) derived from benzilic acid diphenylglycine 3 have been structurally characterized are capable of the ROP μ-caprolactone rac -lactide.

Varying the size of an alkyl side-chain group, installed by thiol–ene addition alkylthiols to poly(?-allyl caprolactone), semi-crystallinity and lipophilicity functional PCLs could be modulated achieve divergent physico-chemical properties.

Biomedicine requires materials able to respond specific needs without affecting the organism. Organic–inorganic fibrillar polymeric matrices possess unique properties that may fulfill these needs. In present study, different topology-controlled poly(ε-caprolactone)-based containing glycine betaine at varying concentrations (0.5, 1, and 2% w/v) were prepared via electrospinning. The used as subs...