June 2014
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502 pages
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English
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120 Biomaterials for Bone Regeneration
when swollen in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) . In addition to the
importance of mechanical property tunability, it is also expected that the
transition rate between shapes can have a signi cant effect on cell behav-
ior during application of SMP substrates and scaffolds. Several methods
have been reported to tune the recovery rate of the shape memory effect.
Kolesov et al . (2009) demonstrated SMP properties can be tuned to alter
the recovery kinetics via several mechanisms. Through changing the cross-
link density, the degree of branching in the polymer, and the deformation
temperature of the polymer, the recovery rate of the SMP was signi cantly
altered. Several other studies have also reported the ...