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ACS BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 1541-1557Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.2c01253
Keywords
porous scaffolds; injectable; conductivity; electroactivity; biodegradability; biocompatibility
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Injectable conductive porous scaffolds were fabricated by incorporating camphor sulfonic acid-doped polyaniline (PANI) into hydroxyapatite/poly-(lactide-co-glycolide) (HA/PLGA) scaffolds. These scaffolds exhibited excellent electroactivity, conductivity, hydrophilicity, antibacterial properties, and biocompatibility. Controlling the degradation behavior through PANI content regulation could promote bone ingrowth and restoration in conductive porous scaffolds.
In addition to biocompatibility and bioactivity, scaffolds with superior bone tissue regenerative capacity should possess excellent functionality (e.g., electroactivity and conductivity) and biodegradability matching with the rate of bone reconstruction. However, current conductive scaffolds display a reduced biodegrad-ability rate and weakened biocompatibility. In this study, injectable conductive porous scaffolds were fabricated, incorporating camphor sulfonic acid-doped polyaniline (PANI) into hydroxyapatite/poly-(lactide-co-glycolide) (HA/PLGA) scaffolds, using solvent-casting/ particulate-leaching methodology. These scaffolds demonstrated excellent electroactivity, conductivity, hydrophilicity, thermodynam-ic properties, antibacterial properties, and biocompatibility. Their degradation behavior was explored by regulating the PANI content. The results demonstrated that adding an appropriate content of PANI would increase the pore size, porosity, and water absorption of the conductive scaffold and promote the formation of filamentous fiber byproducts with acidic hydrolysates, which accelerated the degradation rate of the scaffold. Owing to Jr-Jr stacking and hydrogen bonding, the conductive scaffold with 10 wt % PANI efficiently retarded the decrease in the thermal and mechanical properties of the scaffolds during a 16 week degradation. Thus, better regulation of degradation behavior and correlation would allow conductive porous scaffolds, such as bone implants, to achieve better bone ingrowth and restoration.
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