Surfactant-free poly(lactide-co-glycolide) honeycomb films for tissue engineering: relating solvent, monomer ratio and humidity to scaffold structure

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Abstract

One-step surfactant-free, water-droplet templating has been developed as a fabrication method for a poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) film that can be used as a model to investigate the relationship between solvent, monomer ratio, polymer concentration and humidity on its structure. The resulting material is a honeycomb-structured film. Formation of this structure was highly sensitive to solvent, monomer ratio, polymer concentration and humidity. Surfactant-free, water-droplet templating thus allows investigation of fabrication parameters and that PLGA monomer ratio selection is important for scaffold structure but not for MG63 cell attachment and proliferation.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)423-430
Number of pages8
JournalBiotechnology Letters
Volume33
Issue number2
Early online date20 Oct 2010
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2011

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