Issue 13, 2023

Reconfigurable scaffolds for adaptive tissue regeneration

Abstract

Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine have offered promising alternatives for clinical treatment of body tissue traumas, losses, dysfunctions, or diseases, where scaffold-based strategies are particularly popular and effective. Over the decades, scaffolds for tissue regeneration have been remarkably evolving. Nevertheless, conventional scaffolds still confront grand challenges in bio-adaptions in terms of both tissue-scaffold and cell-scaffold interplays, for example complying with complicated three-dimensional (3D) shapes of biological tissues and recapitulating the ordered cell regulation effects of native cell microenvironments. Benefiting from the recent advances in “intelligent” biomaterials, reconfigurable scaffolds have been emerging, demonstrating great promise in addressing the bio-adaption challenges through altering their macro-shapes and/or micro-structures. This mini-review article presents a brief overview of the cutting-edge research on reconfigurable scaffolds, summarizing the materials for forming reconfigurable scaffolds and highlighting their applications for adaptive tissue regeneration. Finally, the challenges and prospects of reconfigurable scaffolds are also discussed, shedding light on the bright future of next-generation reconfigurable scaffolds with upgrading adaptability.

Graphical abstract: Reconfigurable scaffolds for adaptive tissue regeneration

Article information

Article type
Minireview
Submitted
18 1 2023
Accepted
27 2 2023
First published
01 3 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale, 2023,15, 6105-6120

Reconfigurable scaffolds for adaptive tissue regeneration

M. Peng, Q. Zhao, M. Wang and X. Du, Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 6105 DOI: 10.1039/D3NR00281K

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