Recent trends on biomaterials for tissue regeneration applications: review

Abstract

Tissue engineering is approach of replacing or regeneration of biological functions of tissues or organs by using combination of biomaterials, biomolecules and cells. Tissue engineering mainly depends scaffold biomaterials and scaffold fabrication methods. Therefore, there have been progressive investigation and development of new biomaterials with different formulations to help and achieve necessary requirements in the tissue engineering applications. This review is briefly representing necessary features associated with biomaterial type and design required for tissue regeneration applications, and presenting earlier research in tissue engineering field and new trends for future implementation. It is mainly focusing on generations of biomaterials and discovery tissue engineering field. As well as, different types of biomaterials, such as bioceramics, bioactive glasses, synthetic and natural polymers and their derived composites, used in fabrication of scaffolds (as a main part of tissue engineering) are demonstrated in this review. Scaffold fabrication methods are also reviewed here. Moreover, it is showing the recent achievements in tissue engineering field for bone, skin, cartilage, neural, and cardiac regeneration as a pre-clinical procedure for repair of injured and diseased tissues and organs. Finally, recent trends and challenges of biomaterials for tissue regeneration are presented also in this review.Graphical abstract