GREEN4AGEING research on scaffolds process-structure-functionality relationship published in The Journal of Supercritical Fluids

The state-of-the-art of morphological characterization of scaffolds indicates that there is not a universal technique able to fully characterize the porous structure of polymeric scaffolds, mandatory to establish structure-functionality relationships.

The combination of complementary characterization techniques (μ-CT and MIP) coupled to the modelling of the generated data, offers not only broader and more realistic information of the obtained scaffolds, but also regarding their potential use as synthetic bone grafts.

This research article “New insights in the morphological characterization and modelling of poly(ε-caprolactone) bone scaffolds obtained by supercritical CO₂ foaming” by Víctor Santos-Rosales et al. represents a step forward towards the knowledge on process-structure-functionality relationships in synthetic bone grafts for the definition of standard operating procedures in the manufacturing of poly(ε-caprolactone) scaffolds by supercritical CO₂ foaming.