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American Chemical Society, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 46(7), p. 25574-25579, 2015

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08764

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Two-Photon Lithography of 3D Nanocomposite Piezoelectric Scaffolds for Cell Stimulation

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Abstract

In this letter we report on the fabrication, the characterization, and the in vitro testing of structures suitable for cell culturing, prepared through two-photon polymerization of a nanocomposite resist. More in details, commercially-available Ormocomp® has been doped with piezoelectric barium titanate nanoparticles, and bioinspired 3D structures resembling trabeculae of sponge bone have been fabricated. After an extensive characterization, preliminary in vitro testing demonstrated that both the topographical and the piezoelectric cues of these scaffolds are able to enhance the differentiation process of human SaOS-2 cells in terms of hydroxyapatite deposition.