Bioartificial materials synthetic polymers

Polymeric materials are extensively utilized in the biomedical field. While it is much easier to employ synthetic polymers in the biomedical field, natural polymers are also essential owing to their biocompatibility and biodegradability. An additional method of fabrication of polymeric materials for biomedical applications is to mix together synthetic polymers with natural ones. Growing interest in innovative materials based on blends of two or more polymers has been studied through the last three decades. Blends of synthetic and natural polymers can shape a novel class of materials with superior mechanical properties and biocompatibility in comparison those of single components. This emerging class called as bioartificial or biosynthetic polymeric materials [15-18]. Natural polymers are typically biocompatible, while synthetic polymers can include a residue of... 

Giusti P, Lazzeri L, LeUi L. Bioartificial polymeric materials a new method to design biomaterials by using both biological and synthetic polymers. TRIP. 1993 1 261-7. 

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