The biologic functional surfaces and their applications in tissue engineering
Yao, F.; Chen, M.; Zhang, H.; Zhang, H.; An, X.; Yao, K.
Sheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi 24(5): 1177-1179; 1199
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 1001-5515 PMID: 18027721 Document Number: 611688
The construction of biologic functional surfaces of materials, from the visual angle of material science, is aimed to make the biomaterials adapted by tissues, and to endow them with dynamic conformity; moreover, from the view-point of clinical applications, it is the functional surface to join the environmental tissues with the implanted material, playing the role of artificial extracellular matrix (ECM). The architecture of biologic functional surface is very important in tissue engineering science. Here the primary concepts of biological surface science and the construction and application of biofunctional surfaces in tissue engineering are reviewed.