Review on the Recent Achievements in the Field of BIO-Textiles

Ninth Annual ScanBalt Forum 2010 2010
Inga Ļašenko, Elvīra Boziļeva, Olga Brode, Jūlija Novinkina

Paper gives a review on the application of novel textiles in the field of medicine. Biotextiles is a relatively new and fast growing branch of biomaterials science. Brief historical overview and biotextiles classification are also present. A detailed description of some recent elaborations in the field of biotextiles can be found. To facilitate the understanding of some specific terms (e.g. biodegradation of polymer fibres) a wider description of those is given.

Keywords
biomaterials biotextiles biodegradation tissue engineering

Ļašenko, I., Boziļeva, E., Brode, O., Novinkina, J. Review on the Recent Achievements in the Field of BIO-Textiles. In: Ninth Annual ScanBalt Forum 2010, Estonia, Tallinn, 22-24 September, 2010. Tartu: Tartu University, 2010, pp.21-21.

Publication language
English (en)