Biodegradable Silicon-Containing Elastomers for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds and Shape Memory Polymers
Commonly used thermoplastic biodegradable polymers are generally brittle and lack appreciable elasticity at physiological temperature and thereby fail to mimic the elastic nature of many human soft tissues such as blood vessels. Thus, there is a need for biomaterials which exhibit elasticity. Biodeg...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-854 |