Scaffolding / Bio-Scaffolds
Seyedeh Sara Kamali; Haniye Abdi Kordlar; Maryam Saadatmand; Shohreh Mashayekhan
Volume 14, Issue 1 , May 2020, , Pages 43-53
Abstract
Successful cell culture in large scale 3D scaffolds in tissue engineering is still challenging and requires full control over physical, chemical and mechanical properties of the applied scaffolds. Recently, using printers for the fabrication of 3D scaffold with a structural arrangement of fibers has ...
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Successful cell culture in large scale 3D scaffolds in tissue engineering is still challenging and requires full control over physical, chemical and mechanical properties of the applied scaffolds. Recently, using printers for the fabrication of 3D scaffold with a structural arrangement of fibers has been extensively developed, because it is possible to define the structure of scaffold geometry before manufacturing. The aim of this study was the investigation of the effective geometrical parameters on the 3D symmetric porous scaffold from the mass and momentum transport phenomena point of view. In this way, the mass and momentum transfer equations were solved using COMSOL Multiphysics software. In 3D scaffolds, the optimum model is the one that can provide a more appropriate environment for the cultured cells leading an increase in the attached cell number. The oxygen concentration reaching the bone cells should be greater than 0.02 mol/m3 in order to prevent cell death. Moreover, the fluid shear stress regime must be such that (between 10-5 to 10-3 Pa) it could not cause cell detachment. After studying the results of the simulation and changing the different parameters such as fiber diameter, fiber distance and the width of the channels, the appropriate structure was obtained regarding maximum shear stress and minimum oxygen concentration, and then the effect of fluid flow rate on maximum shear stress was examined for the appropriate structure. The optimized model with a fiber diameter of 0.25 mm, a fiber distance of 0.25 mm, and a channel width of 0.25 mm was proposed that fluid flow inlet velocity was 5×10-5 m/s.
Tissue Engineering
Shahryar Ramezani Bajgiran; Maryam Saadatmand
Volume 11, Issue 3 , September 2017, , Pages 211-218
Abstract
Despite the advancements made in the tissue engineering, one of the obstacles in producing thick tissues is the means of oxygen transport to the deep layered cells of the engineered tissue and creating the network of veins inside the tissue. One way to overcome this problem is to create a microfluidic ...
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Despite the advancements made in the tissue engineering, one of the obstacles in producing thick tissues is the means of oxygen transport to the deep layered cells of the engineered tissue and creating the network of veins inside the tissue. One way to overcome this problem is to create a microfluidic network of channels inside the porous scaffold. These channels can both enhance the oxygenation and produce a mold for the natural vessels created by the angiogenesis cells. In this paper the dissolved oxygen distribution inside a 2D scaffold, which contains bifurcation based microfluidic channels, has been simulated by the means of computational fluid dynamics. To achieve this, the liquid flow and oxygen transport equations have been solved with considerations to the boundary conditions and suitable parameters. The oxygen transport has been found for the static scaffold, and the scaffolds made from the 0 order to third order of bifurcation with a bifurcation angle of 45 degrees. The results have shown that the scaffold with the second order of bifurcation has a better oxygen distribution and also more free area for the cell proliferation, which is consistent with the references. Next, the bifurcation angle was reduced to 35 degrees for the second order scaffold which resulted in an increase in the non-hypoxic area. Generally, by designing optimized angle of bifurcation based channels, a significant area can be oxygenated, while there will be sufficient surface available for cell proliferations.
