Table 1.
Category, property and application of the different polymer-based biomaterials.
| Material Category | Materials | Property | Application | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polymeric Films | Poly(acrylic acid) grafted bacterial cellulose | Self-healable film | Wound dressing material | [43] |
| Chitosan and konjac glucomannan | Bilayered film | Drug delivery and wound healing | [44] | |
| Alginate | Bilayered film | Drug delivery and wound healing | [45] | |
| Sodium alginate, gelatin and reduced graphene oxide | Electrically conductive film | Wound dressing material | [46] | |
| Polymeric Sponges | Agarose and chitosan | 3D Scaffold | Liver tissue model | [55] |
| Gelatin | Scaffold | Cartilage extracellular matrix | [56] | |
| Fibroin/chitin/silver nanoparticles | Scaffold | Antibacterial activity | [62] | |
| Collagen and ZnO nanoparticles | Scaffold | Wound dressing material | [63] | |
| Gelatin and PVA | Scaffold | Cytocompatible biomaterial for skin regeneration | [64] | |
| Collagen and hydroxyapatite | Scaffold | Bone tissue engineering | [65] | |
| Chitosan | Scaffold | Bone tissue engineering | [66] | |
| Hydrogels | Chitosan films cross-linked with epoxy polymers | Shape memory | vascular stents | [99] |
| Alginate-gellan gum | 3D printing | 3D printed scaffolds | [115] | |
| Collagen | Tissue engineering | Corneal and cardiac tissue engineering | [74] | |
| poly(ε-caprolactone)-poly(ethylene glycol) and gelatin methacyrylate | Tissue engineering | Corneal tissue engineering | [75] | |
| Collagen/polyacrylamide | Wound dressing | Wound dressing material | [76] | |
| Collagen/hyaluronic acid | Tissue engineering | Bone tissue engineering | [77] | |
| Sodium alginate, Bioglass and poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) | Multilayered hydrogel | Wound dressing material | [78] | |
| Injectable Hydrogels | Carbon nanotube (CNT) and glycidyl methacrylate functionalized quaternized chitosan | Shape memory | Haemorrhage homeostasis and wound healing | [98] |
| Collagen I and III | Tissue engineering | Skin tissue engineering | [80] | |
| Gelatin/hyaluronic acid | Tissue engineering | Cardiac tissue engineering | [81] | |
| Gelatin/gold nanoparticles | Tissue engineering | Bone tissue engineering | [82] | |
| Thermoplastics | PLA, calomer | Shape memory | Heat triggered vascular stents | [96,97] |
| MM5520 and MM6520 | Shape memory | Light triggered vascular stents | [100] | |
| Cu-clad polyimide | Shape memory | Wireless actuated SMP for drug delivery | [102] | |
| Polyurethane | Shape memory | Scaffolds with shape memory | [103] | |
| ABS and PLA | 3D printing | 3D printed scaffolds | [109,111] | |
| POROLAY | 3D printing | 3D printed scaffoldwith drug delivery | [110] | |
| Bioinks | articular cartilage- resident chondroprogenitor cells | 3D printing | 3D constructs of multiple cell types | [120] |
| cell aggregates, natural or synthetic biomaterials | 3D printing | Artificial heart valves | [119] |