Areias, AC.; Gómez-Tejedor, José Antonio; Sencadas, V.; Alio, J.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, S.(Wiley, 2012-06)
Electrospun chitosan nanofiber mats have been obtained using chitosan solutions in a mixture of trifluoroacetic acid and dichloromethane. The relationship between processing parameters (solvent composition, polymer ...
Correia, V.; Panadero, J. A.; Ribeiro, C.; Sencadas, V.; Rocha, J. G.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Méndez, S.(Springer-Verlag, 2016-04)
[EN] Specific tissues, such as cartilage, undergo
mechanical solicitation under their normal performance in
human body. In this sense, it seems necessary that proper
tissue engineering strategies of these tissues should ...
Correia, D. M.; Gamiz Gonzalez, Mª Amparo; Botelho, G.; Vidaurre, Ana; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, S.; Sencadas, V.(Springer-Verlag, 2014-07)
[EN] Thermal degradation of as-electrospun chitosan
membranes and samples subsequently treated with ethanol
and cross-linked with glutaraldehyde has been studied by
thermogravimetry (TG) coupled with an infrared ...
Correia, D. M.; Gonçalves, R.; Ribeiro, C.; Sencadas, V.; Botelho, G.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, S.(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)
[EN] Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) microparticles have been produced by electrospraying as a suitable substrate for tissue engineering applications. The influence of the polymer solution concentration and processing ...
Ribeiro, C.; Moreira, S.; Correia, V.; Sencadas, V.; Rocha, J. G.; Gama, F. M.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, S.(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012)
[EN] This work reports on the influence of the polarization of electroactive poly(vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, on the biological response of cells cultivated under static and dynamic conditions. Non-poled and "poled +" ...
Panadero, Juan Alberto; Vikingsson, Line; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, S.; Sencadas, V.(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
[EN] Polymeric scaffolds used in regenerative therapies are implanted in the damaged tissue and submitted to repeated loading cycles. In the case of articular cartilage engineering, an implanted scaffold is typically ...
Hydrolytic degradation of electrospun mats of poly(l-lactic acid), PLLA, as a function of crystallinity and fiber diameter has been studied. The degradation in a saline phosphate buffer solution (PBS) up to 20 weeks produced ...
[EN] Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/Pb(Zr0.53Ti0.47)O3
([PVDF]1 − x/[PZT]x ) composites of volume fractions x
and (0–3) type connectivity were prepared in the form of
thin films. The films were prepared by solvent casting ...
[EN] Thermal degradation of chitosan with varying deacetylation degree (DD) ranging between 50 and 85% was analyzed by dynamic thermogravimetric analysis at different heating rates. The present study focused on the temperature ...
Araujo, J.; Padrao, J.; Silva, J. P.; Dourado, F.; Correia, D. M.; Botelho, G.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Lanceros-Mendez, S.; Sencadas, V.(Springer-Verlag, 2014-06)
[EN] Elastin isolated from fresh bovine ligaments was dissolved in a mixture of 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexafluoro-2-propanol and water were electrospun into fiber membranes under different processing conditions. Fiber mats of randomly ...
Sencadas, V.; Lanceros-Mendez, S.; Sabater i Serra, Roser; Andrio Balado, A.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís(SPRINGER, 2012-05)
[EN] The aim of this study is to analyze the mobility of polymer chains in semicrystalline poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF). PVDF crystallizes from the melt in the crystalline phase. The transformation from the phase to ...
Cell supports based on electroactive materials, that generate electrical signal variations as a response to mechanical deformations and vice-versa, are gaining increasing attention for tissue engineering applications. In ...
Electroactive beta-poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) membranes were obtained by isothermal crystallization from the solution. Different morphologies and microstructures were obtained by crystallizing at different temperatures. ...