INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

dc.creatorSanhueza, Claudia
dc.creatorAcevedo, Francisca
dc.creatorRocha, Sebastián
dc.creatorVillegas, Pamela
dc.creatorSeeger-Pfeiffer, Michael
dc.creatorNavia, Rodrigo
dc.date2021-08-23T22:54:56Z
dc.date2022-07-07T02:30:21Z
dc.date2021-08-23T22:54:56Z
dc.date2022-07-07T02:30:21Z
dc.date2019
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-21T23:30:51Z
dc.date.available2023-08-21T23:30:51Z
dc.identifier1151174
dc.identifier1151174
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10533/251507
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8295777
dc.descriptionPolyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are natural polyesters produced by microorganisms under carbon source excess and limiting nutrient conditions. However, these biopolymers possess low mechanical and thermal properties, decreasing their potential applications in the medical field. Electrospinning is a technique that forms fibers from different polymers. PHA electrospun fibers improve the mechanical properties and decrease the crystallinity of PHA, including poly-3-hydroxybutyrate and its copolymers, which is attributed to the metastable structure (beta-form) formation. Therefore, the mechanical properties of fibers are intrinsically related to their plane orientation, Aligned fibers present better mechanical properties than randomly oriented fibers. However, randomly oriented fibers promote cell-fiber interaction and cell infiltration. Fibers produced with PHA blended with other polymers have shown improved mechanical and biological properties. Gelatin, zein and cellulose acetate are the main natural polymers that have been blended with PHA for electrospun scaffolds. For scaffold production by coaxial electrospinning, gelatin has been used as a shell and PHA as the core. PHA have been combined with different synthetic polymers and plasticizers resulting in an increase in the PHA miscibility. Therefore, the use of electrospinning in the development of PHA-based scaffolds seems to be an attractive method to change the intrinsic polymer features, increasing and enhancing PHA applications in tissue engineering. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
dc.descriptionRegular 2015
dc.descriptionFONDECYT
dc.descriptionFONDECYT
dc.languageeng
dc.relationhandle/10533/111557
dc.relationhandle/10533/111541
dc.relationhandle/10533/108045
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.11.068
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Chile
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.titlePolyhydroxyalkanoates as biomaterial for electrospun scaffolds
dc.titleINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
dc.typeArticulo
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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