Uscategui, Yomaira L.; Diaz, Luis E.; Gómez-Tejedor, José-Antonio; Vallés Lluch, Ana; Vilariño, Guillermo; Serrano, María-Antonia; Valero, Manuel F.(MDPI AG, 2019-01-10)
[EN] Polyurethanes are widely used in the development of medical devices due to their biocompatibility, degradability, non-toxicity and chemical versatility. Polyurethanes were obtained from polyols derived from castor ...
Morales-Gonzalez, Maria; Arévalo-Alquichire, Said; Diaz, Luis E.; Sans-Tresserras, Juan Ángel; Vilariño, Guillermo; Gómez-Tejedor, José-Antonio; Valero, Manuel F.(Cambridge University Press (Materials Research Society), 2020-12-14)
[EN] Interactions between smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and biomaterials must not result in phenotype changes as this may generate uncontrolled multiplication processes and occlusions in vascular grafts. The aim of this study ...
Arevalo-Alquichire, Said; Morales-Gonzalez, Maria; Navas-Gomez, Kelly; Diaz, Luis E.; Gómez-Tejedor, José-Antonio; Serrano, María-Antonia; Valero, Manuel F.(MDPI AG, 2020-03)
[EN] Polyurethanes (PUs) from Polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polycaprolactone diol (PCL) and a crosslinker, Pentaerythritol (PE), were synthetized with isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI). In this study, we investigated the ...
Uscátegui, Yomaira L.; Arevalo-Alquichire, Said J.; Gómez-Tejedor, José-Antonio; Vallés Lluch, Ana; Diaz, Luis E.; Valero, Manuel F.(Cambridge University Press (Materials Research Society), 2017)
[EN] Polyurethane-based bioadhesive was synthesized with polyols derived from castor oil (chemically modified and unmodified) and hexamethylene diisocyanate with chitosan addition as a bioactive filler. The objective was ...
Arévalo-Alquichire, Said; Ramírez, Claudia; Andrade, Laura; Uscategui, Yomaira; Diaz, Luis E.; Gómez-Tejedor, José Antonio; Vallés Lluch, Ana; Valero, Manuel F.(SAGE Publications, 2018)
[EN] Polyurethanes (PUs) from castor oil (CO), modified CO (MCO) by transesterification reaction, isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) in an NCO/OH ratio equal to 1, and chitosan (CS) were synthesized to assess their potential ...