INVESTIGADORES
BONGIOVANNI ABEL Silvestre Manuel
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Towards 3-D electrospun nanocomposites using gas-foaming technique
Autor/es:
S. BONGIOVANNI ABEL; G. RIVERO; G. A. ABRAHAM
Lugar:
Mar del Plata
Reunión:
Simposio; XVI SIMPOSIO LATINOAMERICANO DE POLÍMEROS - XIV IBEROAMERICAN POLYMER CONGRESS; 2018
Institución organizadora:
INTEMA
Resumen:
Electrospun mats are densely packed fiber layers, and the lack of space between adjacent layers creates a two-dimensional (2-D) sheet-like structure with superficial planar pores.1 Thus, the small pore size of typical 2-D nanofiber mats limits their use as scaffold for applications in tissue engineering.2 To overcome this drawback, a number of strategies with different effectiveness have been explored to develop 3-D electrospun nanofiber scaffolds with enhanced cellular ingrowth. Recently, gas-foaming technique (GF) was used to fabricate polymeric tissue-engineered scaffolds with enlarged pore size.3 In this work, 3-D polymer/bioceramic nanocomposite electrospun mats were obtained by post-electrospinning via GF process. A preliminary characterization of the expanded scaffolds is presented.