Patrycja Gaćkowska-Gondek

Visiting PhD student (AGH University of Krakow, Poland)

Borate based bioactive materials for hard and soft tissue engineering applications

Supervisor in Poland: PhD DSc Katarzyna Cholewa-Kowalska

Supervisor in Erlangen: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Aldo R. Boccaccini

Bioactive borate glasses (BBGs) are known for their compositional flexibility and potential in tissue engineering [1, 2]. Due to their high surface area and rapid degradation, bioactive glass fibers are being explored for soft tissue regeneration [3]. This study focuses on the development of borate glass fibers using the electrospinning core-shell technique to optimize their properties for biomedical applications.

[1] D. Ege, et al., Borate Bioactive Glasses (BBG): Bone Regeneration, Wound Healing Applications, and Future Directions, ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 5 (2022) 3608–3622.

[2] M. N. Rahaman et al., “Bioactive glass in tissue engineering,” Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 2355–2373, Jun. 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2011.03.016.

[3] S. Zhao et al., “Wound dressings composed of copper-doped borate bioactive glass microfibers stimulate angiogenesis and heal full-thickness skin defects in a rodent model,” Biomaterials, vol. 53, pp. 379–391, Jun. 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.02.112.