TY  - CHAP
AU  - Morent, Rino
AU  - Ghobeira, Rouba
AU  - Cools, Pieter
AU  - van Geyterand, Nathalie
AU  - van Vrekhem, Stijn
AU  - Cools, Pieter
AU  - Ghobeira, Rouba
AU  - Van Vrekhem, Stijn
AU  - De Geyterand, Nathalie
AU  - Morent, Rino
AB  - Non-thermal plasma technology is one of those techniques that suffer relatively little from diffusion limits, slow kinetics, and complex geometries compared to more traditional liquid-based chemical surface modification techniques. Combined with a lack of solvents, preservation of the bulk properties, and fast treatment times; it is a well-liked technique for the treatment of materials for biomedical applications. In this book chapter, a review will be given on what the scientific community determined to be essential to obtain appropriate scaffolds for tissue engineering and how plasma scientists have used non-thermal plasma technology to accomplish this. A distinction will be made depending on the scaffold fabrication technique, as each technique has its own set of specific problems that need to be tackled. Fabrication techniques will include traditional fabrication methods, rapid prototyping, and electrospinning. As for the different plasma techniques, both plasma activation and grafting/polymerization will be included in the review and linked to the in-vitro/in-vivo response to these treatments. The literature review itself is preceded by a more general overview on cell communication, giving useful insights on how surface modification strategies should be developed.
DO  - 10.5772/62007
ID  - OAPEN ID: 612531
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030814941
KW  - non-thermal plasma technology
KW  - tissue engineering
KW  - scaffold fabrication
KW  - biomaterials
KW  - non-thermal plasma technology
KW  - tissue engineering
KW  - scaffold fabrication
KW  - biomaterials
KW  - Blood plasma
KW  - Collagen
KW  - Electrospinning
KW  - Osteoblast
KW  - Polylactic acid
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/41c5c0c7-3983-495f-b98a-271ca082f442/612531.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32356
PB  - InTechOpen
PY  - 2016
TI  - Chapter 8 Non-thermal Plasma Technology for the Improvement of Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine - A Reviewnull
ER  - 
