[Tue-K2] Engineering Biology and Medicine

[Tue-K2-4] Multifaceted Polymeric Guidance Conduits with Double-Layered Architecture and Plasma-Induced Inner Chemistry Gradient for the Repair of Critical-Sized Nerve Defects

*Rouba Ghobeira¹, Paul Wieringa², Stijn Van Vrekhem¹, Sheida Aliakbarshirazi¹, Iuliia Onyshchenko¹, Nathalie De Geyter¹, Lorenzo Moroni², Rino Morent¹ (1. 1 Research Unit Plasma Technology (RUPT), Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium (Belgium), 2. Department of Complex Tissue Regeneration, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands (Netherlands))

Keywords:Nerve guidance conduits, Plasma surface treatment, Chemistry gradient, XPS micro-mapping, Schwann cells chemotaxis.