Qingpu Hou

TL;DR: Compared with commonly used porosifying methods such as sintering, compression moulding combined with salt leaching, and freeze-drying, this process allows excellent control over pore size and porosity and yields scaffolds with a much more homogeneous pore morphology.

TL;DR: Three-dimensional degradable porous polymeric structures with high porosities (93-98%) and well-interconnected pore networks have been prepared by freeze-drying polymer solutions in the presence of a leachable template followed by leaching of the template to facilitate higher interconnectivity of the scaffolds.

TL;DR: Biodegradable polymer networks prepared from fumaric acid derivatives of oligomeric esters, built up of non-toxic compounds and designed to release benign degradation products, may find wide application in tissue engineering and other areas of biomedical research.

TL;DR: Biodegradable elastomeric networks, built up of non-toxic compounds and designed to release benign degradation products, may find application as tissue engineering scaffolds for dynamic cell culture.

TL;DR: In this article, e-caprolactone structures have been obtained by leaching of compression moulded salt-containing polymer precipitates, where a PCL solution containing dispersed water-soluble salt particles is precipitated into an excess of non-solvent.