Appropriate mechanical properties and highly interconnected porosity are important properties for tissue engineering scaffolds.
Hydrogels with tissue-like mechanical properties are highly attractive scaffolds for tissue engineering.
This is similar to the way that water mobility determines mechanical properties of highly hydrated tissues, such as articular cartilage.
As a function of polarity and reactivity design, it was possible to control phase separation and to vary mechanical properties from highly flexible to stiff and tough.
The mechanical properties of highly porous (90% porosity) poly l-lactide) (poly l-lactidecaPLLAactone) (poly and poly(l-lactide/ε-caprolactone) (PCLL) were investigandd.
However their mechanical properties are highly variable and may be a function of thermal expansion anisotropy (TEA) induced stresses and microcracking.
The resulting mechanical properties are highly variable according to architecture, and can be easily tailored for specific applications using the simple yet powerful formalism developed in this work.
Mismatch of mechanical properties between highly deformable biomedical materials and adjacent native tissue might lead to short and long term health impairment.
The extrapolated results have indicated that the Cu nanoparticles are several times stronger than bulk Cu and their mechanical properties are highly dependent on the particle size.
The focus of the work is on illuminating the effect of Al substitution on chemical and mechanical properties of highly ordered synthetic cement phases.
