This work reports on the biocompatibility evaluation of new biodegradable starch-based polymers that are under consideration for use in orthopaedic temporary applications and as tissue engineering scaffolds. It has been shown in previous works that by using these polymers it is both possible to produce polymer/hydroxyapatite (HA) composites (with or without the use of coupling agents) with mech...

We consider an individual-based model where agents interact over a random network via firstorder dynamics that involve both attraction and repulsion. In the case of all-to-all coupling of agents in Rd this system has a lowest energy state in which an equal number of agents occupy the vertices of the d-dimensional simplex. The purpose of this paper is to study the behavior of this model when the...

This work reports on the biocompatibility evaluation of new biodegradable starch-based polymers that are under consideration for use in orthopaedic temporary applications and as tissue engineering sca!olds. It has been shown in previous works that by using these polymers it is both possible to produce polymer/hydroxyapatite (HA) composites (with or without the use of coupling agents) with mecha...