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Fabrication of TiO2 Nano-fiber Meshes by Electrospinning and Evaluation of their Potential for Bone Applications

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Title: Fabrication of TiO2 Nano-fiber Meshes by Electrospinning and Evaluation of their Potential for Bone Applications
Author: Gittens Ibacache, Rolando Arturo
Abstract: Ideal outcomes in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine involve biomaterials that can enhance cell differentiation and tissue repair without the use of systemic drugs. Tissue engineering biomaterials include polymeric scaffolds that mimic the native 3-D structural environment of the final application, but that usually need to be functionalized with proteins or small peptides to improve their bioactivity. Particularly for bone applications, titanium implants, or more appropriately the titanium dioxide (TiO2) passive layer formed on their surface, have been shown to enhance osteoblast differentiation in vitro and to promote osseointegration in vivo. However, few studies have looked at the effect of the structural properties of pure TiO2 porous biomaterials for tissue engineering. In this study, we evaluated the effect of pure TiO2 nano-fiber meshes prepared by electrospinning, with different surface roughness and nano-fiber diameters, on osteoblast differentiation.
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Rolanda Gittens presented a lecture at the Nano@Tech Meeting on April 12, 2011 at 12 noon in room 1116 of the Marcus Nanotechnology Building.
Rolando Gittens is a doctoral student in the Bioengineering program at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering.
Runtime: 23:08 minutes
Type: Lecture
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/38530
Date: 2011-04-12
Contributor: Georgia Institute of Technology. Nanotechnology Research Center
Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Materials Science and Engineering
Publisher: Georgia Institute of Technology
Subject: Nanotechnology
Fabrication
Nanostructures
Tissue adhesion

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