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Chapter 2 - Physico-chemical material properties and analysis techniques relevant in high-throughput biomaterials research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2013

By
Erwin Zant ,
Mirjam J. Bosman  and
Dirk W. Grijpma
Edited by
Jan de Boer  and
Clemens A. van Blitterswijk
Jan de Boer
Affiliation:
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Clemens A. van Blitterswijk
Affiliation:
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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High-throughput and combinatorial research on biomaterials aims at the rapid development of new materials and the establishment of structure–function relationships. Therefore, knowledge of the chemistry of each material and its impact on physical properties is essential to understand the effect on its function as a biomaterial. A tutorial on basic physical and chemical properties of (polymeric) materials highlights these features and can be found in the first part of this chapter. The second part gives an overview of relevant techniques that can be used to screen these material properties in high throughput. In addition, several examples are described in which these methods are used to develop structure–function relationships between material properties and biological performance.

Basic principles: physical and chemical properties of polymeric biomaterials

Chemistry is a constant factor from which the performance of most (polymeric) biomaterials can be predicted, but this extrapolation becomes less obvious when numerous materials are mixed in huge combinatorial libraries. Therefore, researchers are becoming increasingly involved in high-throughput material research when successful correlations between biological performance and physico-chemical material properties are to be made. This accelerating trend can be extracted from many studies where high-throughput technologies are successfully applied to measure physical properties and biological performance of many different polymeric biomaterials. Physical properties such as hardness, topography and hydrophilicity are known to be important parameters in the biological evaluation of materials, because they allow or block the adhesion of biological compounds which is required to allow cell-spreading, migration, proliferation and differentiation. These properties are naturally different for every material or combination of materials, and relate primarily to the variable properties on the chemical level (molecular structure, functional groups and degradation). Therefore, the chemistry of a biomaterial directly contributes to its interaction with biological environments.

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Materiomics
High-Throughput Screening of Biomaterial Properties
 , pp. 13 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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