Research project: Designing biomaterials for tissue engineering and tissue regeneration

The goal of this research is to characterise the chemo-mechanical behaviour of biodegradable polymers such as polyester-urethane via physical experiments and the development of appropriate multi-physics constitutive models. Applications of particular interest are for the fabrication of electro-spun biodegradable structures used for vascular tissue engineering scaffolds. Constitutive models account for the finite strain and potential anisotropy of the polymeric structures. There is also special interest in predicting the degradation of bioresorbable arterial stents.