Role of Smart Materials in Tissue Engineering

Tissue engineering research has made significant progress during the past few decades. Furthermore, improvements in novel materials offer the opportunity to create materials precisely to influence cell activity and tissue repair. Smart materials are an emerging field in materials science that change their properties in response to certain signals, such as pH, temperature, light, magnetism, and enzymes. To improve tissue regeneration, smart materials are synthesized by modifying the scaffolds' physicochemical and biological features in response to external stimuli. This article summarized the most recent advances in smart materials, the several categories of smart materials, and their applications, and also explains the definition of smart materials.

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Smart materials , External stimuli , Tissue engineering