Tissue engineering systems scaffold design

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In this chapter, we focus on recent efforts to design and fabricate soft shape-memory materials, including both polymeric and supramolecular systems. We first classify these materials based on their micro- and nanostructure (Section 5.2.2). We then highlight how soft shape-memory materials have been applied to biomedical applications as implantables (Section 5.2.3.1), drug delivery devices (Section 5.2.3.2), and tissue engineering scaffolds (Section 5.2.3.3). In addition, we briefly discuss future trends for utilizing soft shape-memory materials for biomedical applications (Section 5.2.4). 

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