Author(s)

Mei-Na Huang, Yuan-Liang Wang, Yan-Feng Luo

National 985 Research Center of Bioinspired Material Science and Engineering, Bioengineering College,Chongqing University.

Biodegradable porous polyurethanes scaffold have themselves opportunities in service, in-cluding controlled degradation rate, no-toxic degradation products. However, polyurethanes are lack of bioactive groups, which limits their application. This review gives the common modification methods, surface functionalization and blending modification. In finally, the review puts forward to the bulk modification as a new method to enhance the bioactivity of polyure-thanes.

Polyurethanes, Bioactivity, Biodegradation, Bone Repair

Huang, M. , Wang, Y. and Luo, Y. (2009) Biodegradable and bioactive porous polyurethanes scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2, 36-40. doi: 10.4236/jbise.2009.21007.