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Abstract

The burst of research papers focused on the tissue engineering and regeneration recorded in the last years is justified by the increased skills in the synthesis of nanostructures able to confer peculiar biological and mechanical features to the matrix where they are dispersed. Inorganic, organic and hybrid nanostructures are proposed in the literature depending on the characteristic that has to be tuned and on the effect that has to be induced. In the field of the inorganic nanoparticles used for decorating the bio-scaffolds, the most recent contributions about the paramagnetic and superparamagnetic nanoparticles use was evaluated in the present contribution. The intrinsic properties of the paramagnetic nanoparticles, the possibility to be triggered by the simple application of an external magnetic field, their biocompatibility and the easiness of the synthetic procedures for obtaining them proposed these nanostructures as ideal candidates for positively enhancing the tissue regeneration. Herein, we divided the discussion into two macro-topics: the use of magnetic nanoparticles in scaffolds used for hard tissue engineering for soft tissue regeneration.

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Title
Paramagnetic Functionalization of Biocompatible Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications: A Perspective
Author
Bettini, Simona 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bonfrate, Valentina 2 ; Valli, Ludovico 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Giancane, Gabriele 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Innovation Engineering, University Campus Ecotekne, University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy; [email protected]; National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology, INSTM, Via G. Giusti, 9, 50121 Firenze, Italy 
 Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Salento, via D. Birago, 64, 73100 Lecce, Italy; [email protected] 
 National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology, INSTM, Via G. Giusti, 9, 50121 Firenze, Italy; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technology (DiSTeBA), University Campus Ecotekne, University of Salento, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy 
 National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology, INSTM, Via G. Giusti, 9, 50121 Firenze, Italy; Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Salento, via D. Birago, 64, 73100 Lecce, Italy; [email protected] 
First page
153
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
23065354
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2466371468
Copyright
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.