Table 3.
Clinical application | Raw materials | Fabrication methods | Refs. | ||
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Osteochondral TE | Building bilayered scaffolds with one component | ||||
Synthetic materials |
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
PLGA | Molding/particulate leaching method | Pan et al. [68] | |
Building bilayered scaffolds with more than one component | |||||
Blend of synthetic materials |
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
PCL/PLGA | 3D‐printing | Natarajan et al. [74] | |
Blends of natural/synthetic/bioceramics materials |
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
Chitosan/gelatin HAP/chitosan/gelatin |
Mixing/molding/freeze‐drying | Chen et al. [75] | |
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
PVA/gelatin/vanillin n‐HAP/PA6 |
Mixing/molding/cross‐linking | Li et al. [97] | ||
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
SF SF/nanoCaP |
Mixing/molding/freeze‐drying | Yan et al. [81] | ||
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
BC‐GAG BC‐HAP |
Mixing | Kumbhar et al. [55] | ||
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
Collagen Mg/HAP |
Mixing/cross‐linking | Sartori et al. [94] | ||
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
Collagen BCP |
Coextrusion Freeze‐drying |
Seong et al. [83] | ||
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
BC/HAP | Cross‐linking | Zhu et al. [88] | ||
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
HRP/SF HRP‐SF/ZnSr‐doped β‐TCP |
Salt leaching/freeze‐drying | Ribeiro et al. [85] | ||
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
Gelatin/SF/dextran PLLA/PLGA/PCL |
Cross‐linking Dual‐phase separation |
Zheng et al. [73] | ||
Chondral layer Subchondral layer |
HLC‐HA HLC‐HA‐HAP |
Liquid phase synthesis/cross‐linking/freeze‐drying | Liu et al. [87] |