Whey-Derived Porous Carbon Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering

Porous carbon structures derived from whey powders are described and evaluated as potential scaffolds in bone tissue engineering. These materials have a porosity between 48% and 58%, with a hierarchical pore size distribution ranging from 1 to 400 micrometres. Compressive strength and elastic modulu...

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Autores principales: Llamas-Unzueta, Raúl, Suárez, Marta, Fernández, Adolfo, Díaz, Raquel, Montes-Morán, Miguel A., Menéndez, J. Angel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8465549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34572276
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9091091
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Sumario:Porous carbon structures derived from whey powders are described and evaluated as potential scaffolds in bone tissue engineering. These materials have a porosity between 48% and 58%, with a hierarchical pore size distribution ranging from 1 to 400 micrometres. Compressive strength and elastic modulus are outstanding for such a porous material, being up to three times better than those of traditional HA or TCP scaffolds with similar porosities. They also present non-cytotoxic and bioactive behavior, due to their carbon-based composition that also includes some residual mineral salts content.

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