Damage to avascular tissue often requires medical attention due to its inability to regenerate healthy tissue. Tissue engineering has the potential to repair this damage by growing thick tissue in vitro with properties and geometry similar to the innate tissue by seeding three dimensional (3D) scaffolds in hydrogels. Scaffold designs must increase internal surface area and void fraction to provide nutrients to the center of the scaffold to ensure viability and sustainable growth.

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Creator

• Meinck, Tara Brittany
• Kibby, Jeremy Harris
• Leverone, Andrew Christian
• Eisenberg, Samuel Casey

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043014-203702

Advisor

• Ambady, Sakthikumar
• Fischer, Gregory S.
• Granquist-Fraser, Domhnull

Year

• 2014

Date created

• 2014-04-30

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright