Ignacio García-Casas, Antonio Montes, Diego Valor, Clara Pereyra and Enrique J. Martínez de  la Ossa Foamed polycaprolactone impregnated with quercetin was carried out with batch foaming technique using supercritical CO2. Experimental design was developed to study the influence of pressure (15-30 MPa), temperature (308-333 K) and depressurization rate (0.1-20) on the foam structure, melting temperature […]

Antonio Montes , Diego Valor , Laura Delgado, Clara Pereyra and Enrique Martínez de la Ossa Conjugated polymers are biomaterials with high conductivity characteristics because of their molecular composition. However, they are too rigid and brittle for medical applications and therefore need to be combined with non-conductive polymers to overcome or lessen these drawbacks. This […]

Diego Valor , Antonio Montes , Antonio Cózar, Clara Pereyra and Enrique Martínez de la Ossa Scaffolds are advanced devices employed in tissue engineering, as they are intended to mimic the characteristics of extracellular matrices. In this respect, conjugated materials are gaining relevance in the manufacturing of the foams used for therapeutic scaffolds, since they […]

Pilar Grosso, Cristina Cejudo,, Ismael Sánchez-Gomar, Mª Carmen Durán-Ruiz, Rafael Moreno-Luna, Lourdes Casas, Clara Pereyra and Casimiro Mantell The addition of natural substances with pharmacoactive properties to polymeric biomedical devices would provide beneficial regarding the assimilation of these endoprostheses when implanted into a patient’s body. The added drug would facilitate endothelization by regulating the inflammatory […]

 Cristina Cejudo-Bastante , Lidia Verano-Naranjo , Noemí  Toro-Barrios, Clara Pereyra , Casimiro Mantell and Lourdes Casas Identifying new polymers from natural resources that can be effectively functionalized can have a substantial impact on biomedical devices and food preservation fields. Some of these polymers would be made of biodegradable, renewable and compostable materials, and present the kind […]