Poly(caprolactone) (PCL), type CAPA 6800 (Solvay Caprolactones, Warrington, UK). Chloroform, methanol, and polyethylene glycol (PEG) (Avantor Performance Materials Poland S.A., Gliwice, Poland). Birch tar (Betula pendula) Gift of Nature (Gift of Nature, Grodzisk, Poland) and was used as ...
Pure Capa6800 PCL pellets, P30 films and P100 films were heated up to 100 °C (5 °C/min), kept at 100 °C for an hour (in order to simulate the thermal conditions of the 3D-printing process) and then heated up to 1000 °C (5 °C/min) until full decomposition. The experiment ...
Keywords: tendon;ligament;tissue engineering;degradation;PCL grades;surface modification;braiding;macroporous scaffold;chitosan-graft-PCL;fiber cross-section