Clay nanotube-biopolymer composite scaffolds for tissue engineering
Friday, April 29, 2016 - 12:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists combined three biopolymers, chitosan and agarose (polysaccharides), and a protein gelatine, as the materials to produce tissue engineering scaffolds and demonstrated the enhancement of mechanical strength (doubled pick load), higher water uptake and thermal properties in chitosan-gelatine-agarose hydrogels doped with halloysite.