Whey-Derived Porous Carbon Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering

Overview

Journal Biomedicines

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2021 Sep 28

PMID 34572276

Citations 5

Authors

Raul Llamas-Unzueta

Marta Suarez

Adolfo Fernandez

Raquel Diaz

Miguel A Montes-Moran

J Angel Menendez

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Abstract

Porous carbon structures derived from whey powders are described and evaluated as potential scaffolds in bone tissue engineering. These materials have a porosity between 48% and 58%, with a hierarchical pore size distribution ranging from 1 to 400 micrometres. Compressive strength and elastic modulus are outstanding for such a porous material, being up to three times better than those of traditional HA or TCP scaffolds with similar porosities. They also present non-cytotoxic and bioactive behavior, due to their carbon-based composition that also includes some residual mineral salts content.

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