PMID- 31539364 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200501 LR - 20260314 IS - 1748-605X (Electronic) IS - 1748-6041 (Linking) VI - 14 IP - 6 DP - 2019 Sep 20 TI - Nanocomposite-coated porous templates for engineered bone scaffolds: a parametric study of layer-by-layer assembly conditions. PG - 065008 LID - 10.1088/1748-605X/ab3b7b [doi] AB - Using the layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly technique to deposit mechanically reinforcing coatings onto porous templates is a route for fabricating engineered bone scaffold materials with a combination of high porosity, strength, and stiffness. LbL assembly involves the sequential deposition of nano- to micro-scale multilayer coatings from aqueous solutions. Here, a design of experiments (DOE) approach was used to evaluate LbL assembly of polyethyleneimine (PEI), polyacrylic acid (PAA), and nanoclay coatings onto open-cell polyurethane foam templates. The thickness of the coatings, and the porosity, elastic modulus and collapse stress of coated foam templates were most strongly affected by the pH of PAA solutions, salt concentration, and interactions between these factors. The mechanical properties of coated foams correlated with the thickness of the coatings, but were also ascribed to changes in the coating properties due to the different assembly conditions. A DOE optimization aimed to balance the trade-off between higher mechanical properties but lower porosity of foam templates with increasing coating thickness. Micromechanical modeling predicted that deposition of 116 QLs would achieve mechanical properties of cancellous bone (>0.05 GPa stiffness and >2 MPa strength) at a suitable porosity of >70%. When capped with a final layer of PAA and cross-linked via thermal treatment, the PEI/PAA/PEI/nanoclay coatings exhibited good indirect cytotoxicity with mesenchymal stem cells. The ability of LbL assembly to deposit a wide range of functional constituents within multilayer-structured coatings makes the general strategy of templated LbL assembly a powerful route for fabricating engineered tissue scaffolds that can be applied onto various porous template materials to achieve a wide range of properties, pore structures, and multifunctionality. FAU - Ziminska, Monika AU - Ziminska M AD - School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, BT9 5AH, United Kingdom. FAU - Chalanqui, Marine J AU - Chalanqui MJ AD - School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, United Kingdom. FAU - Chambers, Philip AU - Chambers P AD - School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, United Kingdom. FAU - Acheson, Jonathan G AU - Acheson JG AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3622-552X AD - School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, BT9 5AH, United Kingdom. FAU - McCarthy, Helen O AU - McCarthy HO AD - School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, United Kingdom. FAU - Dunne, Nicholas J AU - Dunne NJ AD - School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. AD - Centre for Medical Engineering Research, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. AD - School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, United Kingdom. AD - Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. AD - Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. AD - Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre (AMBER), Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. FAU - Hamilton, Andrew R AU - Hamilton AR AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4627-849X AD - Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20190920 PL - England TA - Biomed Mater JT - Biomedical materials (Bristol, England) JID - 101285195 RN - 0 (Acrylic Resins) RN - 0 (Anti-Bacterial Agents) RN - 0 (Coated Materials, Biocompatible) RN - 0 (Cross-Linking Reagents) RN - 4Q93RCW27E (carbopol 940) RN - 9002-98-6 (Polyethyleneimine) RN - D1JT611TNE (Titanium) SB - IM MH - Acrylic Resins/chemistry MH - Animals MH - Anti-Bacterial Agents/chemistry MH - Biomimetic Materials/chemistry MH - Bone Marrow Cells/cytology MH - Bone and Bones/*physiology MH - Coated Materials, Biocompatible/chemistry MH - Compressive Strength MH - Cross-Linking Reagents/chemistry MH - Elasticity MH - Hydrogen-Ion Concentration MH - Materials Testing MH - Mesenchymal Stem Cells/cytology MH - Nanocomposites/*chemistry MH - Polyethyleneimine/chemistry MH - Porosity MH - Stress, Mechanical MH - Swine MH - Tissue Engineering/*methods MH - Tissue Scaffolds/chemistry MH - Titanium/chemistry MH - X-Ray Microtomography EDAT- 2019/09/21 06:00 MHDA- 2020/05/02 06:00 CRDT- 2019/09/21 06:00 PHST- 2019/09/21 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/09/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/05/02 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1088/1748-605X/ab3b7b [doi] PST - epublish SO - Biomed Mater. 2019 Sep 20;14(6):065008. doi: 10.1088/1748-605X/ab3b7b.