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Tissue Engineering

Novel biomaterial class has readily controllable tissue engineering attributes

Published in Blood Weekly, September 16th, 2004

A novel class of biomaterials has readily controllable attributes for tissue engineering.

According to recent research from the United States, "Regenerative medicine requires scaffolds of divergent physicochemical properties for different tissue-engineering applications."

"To this end, a series of biodegradable poly(phosphoester) ionomers of the general composition [p(BHET-EOP-HOP/TC)] was synthesized, with BHET(bis-hydroxyl ethylene phosphate):EOP(ethylene phosphate): HOP(free phosphate) ratios of 60:20:20, 70:10:20, and 75:5:20, respectively.

"The 60/20/20 ionomer possessed the best tensile properties," A.C.A. Wan and colleagues...

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