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Biodegradable and macroporous polylactide implants for cell transplantation : 1. Preparation of macroporous polylactide supports by solid-liquid phase separation
Schugens, Ch; Maquet, Véronique; Grandfils, Christian et al.
1996In Polymer, 37 (6), p. 1027-1038
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Keywords :
biomaterial; scaffold; foam
Abstract :
[en] Freeze-drying of polylactide solutions in 1,4-dioxane has been studied as a way to produce microcellular foams. The thermally induced phase separation has been studied in relation to several processing and formulation parameters. The effects of polymer concentration, chain stereoregularity, polymer molecular weight and cooling rate have been investigated in connection with the porous morphology and the physico-mechanical characteristics of the final foams. As a rule, bundles of channels are formed with a diameter of ~100 μ.m. They have a preferential orientation that fits the cooling direction. A porous substructure (~10 μm) is observed in the internal walls of the tubular macropores. Variations in this general porous morphology-and particularly in the porosity, density, solvent residue, mechanical resistance and degree of regularity in the spatial organization of pores-have been observed when polymer concentration in 1,4-dioxane and polylactide stereoregularity are changed. As expected, cooling rate has a strong effect on the foam morphology, which is essentially controlled by the solvent crystallization. Pores are nothing but the fingerprints of 1,4-dioxane crystallites.
Research center :
Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)
Disciplines :
Materials science & engineering
Chemistry
Author, co-author :
Schugens, Ch;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Department of Chemistry > Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)
Maquet, Véronique;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Department of Chemistry > Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)
Grandfils, Christian ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Department of Chemistry > Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)
Jérôme, Robert ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Department of Chemistry > Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)
Teyssié, Philippe ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Department of Chemistry > Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)
Language :
English
Title :
Biodegradable and macroporous polylactide implants for cell transplantation : 1. Preparation of macroporous polylactide supports by solid-liquid phase separation
Publication date :
1996
Journal title :
Polymer
ISSN :
0032-3861
eISSN :
1873-2291
Publisher :
Elsevier Sci Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
37
Issue :
6
Pages :
1027-1038
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
IRSIA - Institut pour l'Encouragement de la Recherche Scientifique dans l'Industrie et l'Agriculture [BE]
BELSPO - Politique scientifique fédérale [BE]
Commentary :
The authors acknowledge Polymer (Elsevier) for allowing them to archive this paper.
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