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Citation
Saiful Izwan Abd Razak, Farah Nuruljannah Dahli, Izzati Fatimah Wahab,
Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir, Ida Idayu Muhamad, Abdul Halim Mohd Yusof & Hassan
Adeli (2016): Conductive Polylactic Acid/Polyaniline Porous Scaffold via Freeze Extraction for Potential Biomedical Applications, Soft Materials
Abstract
This paper reports for the first time a simple yet effective method of fabricating a conductive and highly porous scaffold material made up of polylactic acid (PLA) and conducting polyaniline (PANI). The electrical percolation state was successfully obtained at 3 wt% of PANI inclusions and reached a conductivity level of useable tissue engineering applications at 4 wt%. In addition, preliminary bioactivity test results indicated that the protonating agent could formed chelate at the scaffold surface leading to good in vitro apatite forming ability during biomimetic immersion. This new conductive scaffold has potential as a suitable biomedical material that requires electrical conductivity.
Name : Asrizuan Bin Jauri
– Bachelor’s Degree of Materials Technology with Honour at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam.
– Now studying at Masters level in Biomedical Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
– Currently involves in biomaterial study project for tissue engineering and other medical applications
Asrizuan Bin Jauri
M.Phil Biomedical Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Email: asrizuanjauri@gmail.com