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Hydroxyapatite Pickering PolyHIPEs And “Thermo”HIPEs As Injectable Scaffolds For Tissue Engineering
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2012
Abstract
Two types of porous materials derived from emulsion templates are described as potential scaffolds for tissue engineering. Novel oil-in-water particle stabilised, Pickering High Internal Phase Emulsions (HIPE) stabilised with hydroxyapatite (HAp) nanoparticles were prepared and polymerised to form stable polyHIPEs. By adding a water soluble glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) derivatised dextran as monomer to the continuous aqueous phase of the HIPEs, these Pickering-HIPEs stabilised by nontoxic biocompatible HAp nanoparticles, can be used as templates to manufacture interconnected high porosity macroporous hydrogels. A second type of emulsion templated “poly”HIPE was prepared without the need for covalent crosslinking chemistry which was replaced by a thermally-induced non-covalent scaffold forming process (thermoHIPE). These scaffolds form close to body temperature and potentially offer a new approach to the formation of injectable scaffolds for tissue engineering.
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- MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1376: Symposium S11 – Biomaterials for Medical Applications , 2012 , imrc11-1376-s11-o8
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