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Regenerative medicine is continuously facing new challenges and it is searching for new biocompatible, green/natural polymer materials, possibly biodegradable and non-immunogenic. Moreover, the critical importance of the nano/microstructuring of surfaces is overall accepted for their full biocompatibility and in vitro/in vivo performances. Chitosan is emerging as a promising biopolymer for tissue engineering and its application can be further improved by exploiting its nano/microstructuration. Here, we report the state of the art of chitosan films and scaffolds nano/micro-structuration. We show that it is possible to obtain, by solvent casting, chitosan thin films with good mechanical properties and to structure them at the microscale and even nanoscale level, with resolutions down to 100 nm.
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De Masi, A., Tonazzini, I., Masciullo, C. et al. Chitosan films for regenerative medicine: fabrication methods and mechanical characterization of nanostructured chitosan films. Biophys Rev 11, 807–815 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-019-00591-6
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