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Electrospun ceramic and ceramic-polymer composite nanofibers for bone tissue engineering applications

H. MEIDANIS1, D. E. BACIU2,* , G. PAPAVASSILIOU2, M. FARDISb2, N. PANOPOULOSb2

Affiliation

  1. 3rd Department of Surgery, George Gennimatas General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
  2. Institute for Advanced Materials, Physicochemical Processes, Nanotechnology & Microsystems, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens 15310, Greece

Abstract

The electrospinning technique and the nanofibrous matrices have gained amazing popularity, mainly due to the structural similarity to the tissue extracellular matrix (ECM), the high porosities and surface area-to-volume ratios, the processing availability to a wide range of materials, as well as simple set-up and operation at low cost. Among many possible applications of electrospun nanofibers, such as multifunctional membranes, composite reinforcement and structures for nanoelectronic machines, biomedical applications, such as preparation of scaffolds used for bone tissue engineering have become one of the most interesting areas in electrospinning field. This review summarizes the electrospinning technique and provides a brief overview of current state-of-the-art research designing and using electrospun ceramic and ceramic– polymer composite nanofibers for bone tissue engineering..

Keywords

Electrospinning, Ceramics nanofibers, Bone tissue engineering.

Submitted at: Dec. 20, 2013
Accepted at: March 13, 2014

Citation

H. MEIDANIS, D. E. BACIU, G. PAPAVASSILIOU, M. FARDISb, N. PANOPOULOSb, Electrospun ceramic and ceramic-polymer composite nanofibers for bone tissue engineering applications, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 16, Iss. 3-4, pp. 414-421 (2014)