Conducting polypyrrole in tissue engineering applications

Abstract

Polypyrrole (PPy), the earliest prepared conducting polymer, has good biocompatibility, easy synthesis and flexibility in processing. Compared with metal and inorganic materials, doped PPy has better mechanical match with live tissue, resulting in its many applications in biomedical field. This mini-review presents some information on specific PPy properties for tissue engineering applications, including its synthesis, doping, bio-modification. Although some challenges and unanswered problems still remain, PPy as novel biomaterial has promoted the development tissue engineering for its clinical application in the future.

Keywords

conducting polypyrrole / doping / modification / tissue engineering

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51273122, 51173120 and 51372157).

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