Biologically inspired materials and design have become an important and increasingly widespread movement towards innovative approaches in different fields such as robotics, sensors, electro-optical materials and biomedical devices. Advanced concepts nature-inspired, that involve the creation of nature derived polymer-based systems, constitute an interesting alternative route to design novel constructs for new biotechnology solutions. In particular, natural origin polymers can be employed to construct multi-functional systems that can be manipulated by composition and tailored to biotechnological strategies also for tissue engineering, ex. allowing to mimic the tissue environment (chemistry/patterning/architecture/mechanical properties) required for the cellular regeneration.
Natural-derived polymer in medicine: silk fibroin as a model
Motta, Antonella;Migliaresi, Claudio
2012-01-01
Abstract
Biologically inspired materials and design have become an important and increasingly widespread movement towards innovative approaches in different fields such as robotics, sensors, electro-optical materials and biomedical devices. Advanced concepts nature-inspired, that involve the creation of nature derived polymer-based systems, constitute an interesting alternative route to design novel constructs for new biotechnology solutions. In particular, natural origin polymers can be employed to construct multi-functional systems that can be manipulated by composition and tailored to biotechnological strategies also for tissue engineering, ex. allowing to mimic the tissue environment (chemistry/patterning/architecture/mechanical properties) required for the cellular regeneration.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione
