64 Textiles for Industrial Applications
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or synthetic materials provide stabile scaffolds and allow tissues to regen-
erate the damaged as well as missing organs. Three-dimensional textile
structures are widely used as scaffolds in tissue engineering applications.
Such textile scaffolds demonstrate the ability to provide necessary condi-
tions for cell maintenance. The scaffold should have a certain shape, poros-
ity, and volume. Transplanted scaffolds holding a 3-D cell culture should
copy the cartilage characteristics. Looking for regeneration of injured car-
tilage, the scaffold material should disappear while real cartilage is heal-
ing the wound. Collagen and hyaluronans that are extracted from human or
an