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Fabrication and characterization of electrospun poly-L-lactide/gelatin graded tubular scaffolds: Toward a new design for performance enhancement in vascular tissue engineering
, Article Progress in Natural Science: Materials International ; Volume 25, Issue 5 , October , 2015 , Pages 405–413 ; 10020071 (ISSN) ; Tahmasbi, M ; Amoabediny, G ; Nourmohammadi, J ; Moztarzadeh, F ; Mozafari, M ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier
2015
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In this study, a new design of graded tubular scaffolds have been developed for the performance enhancement in vascular tissue engineering. The graded poly-L-lactide (PLLA) and gelatin fibrous scaffolds produced by electrospining were then characterized. The morphology, degradability, porosity, pore size and mechanical properties of four tubular scaffolds (graded PLLA/gelatin, layered PLLA/gelatin, PLLA and gelatin scaffolds) have been investigated. The tensile tests demonstrated that the mechanical strength and also the estimated burst pressure of the graded scaffolds were significantly increased in comparison with the layered and gelatin scaffolds. This new design, resulting in an increase...
Synthesis and characterization of poly(L-lactide)-block-poly(ε-caprolactone)-grafted titanium dioxide nanoparticles via ring-opening in situ grafting polymerization
, Article Polymer Composites ; Volume 42, Issue 8 , 2021 , Pages 3722-3731 ; 02728397 (ISSN) ; Sharif, F ; Ramezani Saadat Abadi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
John Wiley and Sons Inc
2021
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The synthesis of nanocomposites via in situ grafting polymerization due to its ability to produce polymeric materials with promising microscopic and macroscopic characteristics is becoming very attractive. In this paper, different poly(L-Lactide)-block-poly(ε-caprolactone) (PLLA-b-PCL) copolymers were in situ synthesized in the presence of modified titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles (mTNP) as the initiator and stannous octoate as the catalyst. The surface of TiO2 was modified by grafting aminopropyl trimethoxy silane to improve initiator efficiency. Copolymers with 90/10, 70/30, and 50/50 mass ratio of L-lactide/ ε-caprolactone and 5 wt% of mTNP (proportional to ε-caprolactone) were...
Effects of modified titanium dioxide nanoparticles on the thermal and mechanical properties of poly(l-lactide)-b-poly(ε-caprolactone)
, Article Iranian Polymer Journal (English Edition) ; Volume 31, Issue 7 , 2022 , Pages 893-904 ; 10261265 (ISSN) ; Sharif, F ; Ramazani, S. A. A ; Sharif University of Technology
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
2022
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Incorporating titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles into the polymeric matrix offers an opportunity to obtain nanocomposites with improved functionality. In this study, the commercial TiO2 nanoparticles (TNP) were surface treated by different concentrations of aminopropyl triethoxy silane (APTS) as a coupling agent and triethylamine (Et3N) as a surface grafting catalyst by an aqueous process to prepare a nanocomposite with superior properties. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) were performed to confirm the successful surface modification of TNP. The prepared modified TiO2 nanoparticles (mTNP) with different weight fractions were used as...