Porous starch/cellulose nanofibers composite prepared by salt leaching technique for tissue engineering

A review: Starch-based composite foams

“…Interestingly, the foams combined with BC films exhibited considerable high elongations (30%-37%) as compared to the control foam [83]. Nasri-Nasrabadi et al also found that the cellulose nanofibers integrated in starch scaffolds could increase cell attachment and proliferation for use in cartilage tissue engineering application lately [91].…”

“…In area of starch-based foams, there have been some recent works reported on using nanofiller or nanoreinforcement, i.e. layered silicates (clays), nanocelluloses and nanohydroxyapatite to prepare the nanocomposite foams [31,63,64,[83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91].…”

Electrospun aligned PLGA and PLGA/gelatin nanofibers embedded with silica nanoparticles for tissue engineering

“…Each scaffold was exposed to UV radiation for both top and bottom surfaces in a laminar flow hood (each side for 30 min), washed 3 times with PBS for 20 min and incubated with medium culture for 24 h before cell seeding. The morphology of grown PC12 cells on nanofibrous scaffolds was observed by SEM as described by Nasri-Nasrabadi et al [28]. After 1, 4, and 7 days of cell seeding, the cells were fixed by glutaraldehyde solution (4%, Merck) in PBS for 24 h at 4 • C. The dehydration process was performed on each specimen in a series of graded alcohols (10%, 30%, 50%, 70%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, and 100%), each for 10 min.…”

Composite of porous starch-silk fibroin nanofiber-calcium phosphate for bone regeneration

“…However, the major disadvantages of the starch-based materials using starch taken alone for BTE purposes are their lack of processability and high water sensitivity [4]. In this regard, in order to enhance starch matrix performance in biomedical engineering and biotechnology fields, there is a growing trend towards incorporating natural polymeric fibers into the starch matrix, including bacterial cellulose [5], plant cellulose [6], and bamboo [7].…”