Towards ultraporous poly(L-lactide) scaffolds from quaternary immiscible polymer blends

Biomaterials

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5719-5728

  Virgilio, N ^a   Sarazin, P ^a   Favis, B D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interface; Microstructure; Polylactic acid; Porosity; Scaffold

Indexed keywords

AS ANNEALING; ASYMMETRIC CHANNEL; CAPROLACTONE; COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; DEGREE OF CONTROL; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS; INTERFACE MICROSTRUCTURES; INTERFACIAL MODIFICATION; L-LACTIDE; MELT PROCESSING; MULTIPHASE POLYMER SYSTEMS; PLLA; POLY LACTIC ACID; POLY-L-LACTIDE; POROUS NETWORKS; QUIESCENT ANNEALING; SPECIFIC SURFACE; SUBMICRON-SIZED; VOID VOLUME;

ACIDS; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; ETHYLENE; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHASE INTERFACES; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYSTYRENES; PROPYLENE;

SCAFFOLDS;

MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; POLYLACTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVIMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELASTOMERS; ETHYLENES; POLYESTERS; POLYSTYRENES; POROSITY; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 77953083453     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.03.071     Document Type: Article

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