Some of the common conducting polymers and their conductivity [29].
1. Introduction
Nanocomposites are a combination of a matrix and a filler, where at least one dimension of the system is on the nanoscale being less than or equal to 100 nm. Much work has focused on the construction of nanocomposites due to the structural enhancements in physico-chemical properties, and functionality for any given system [1-6]. The physico-chemical enhancements result from the interaction between the elements being near the molecular scale. Nanocomposite materials have also received interest for tissue engineering scaffolds by being able to replicate the extracellular matrix found
However, the major obstacle concerning the electrically conducting polymers has been the difficulty associated with the processing of them [11]. To overcome this problem, most researchers have electrospun conducting polymers by blending them with other spinnable polymers, compromising the conductivity of the nanocomposite fibres [12-16]. Blending of conducting polymers with other polymers positively affects the properties of the resultant nanocomposite fibres. In addition, sometimes for making benefid from condicting polymers and the specific properties of them we can have just a small thib coating of the polymer on the surface of nanocomposite.
The term of “Tissue Inducible Biomaterials” has been recently applied based on the principles of biology and engineering to design nanocomposite scaffolds that restore, maintain or improve the general function of damaged tissues. To gain tissue induction activity and assist tissue regeneration, the nanocomposite scaffolds need to be designed based on nanostructural properties, surface modifications or incorporation of molecules into them. Among different approaches and materials for the preparation of scaffolds, get benefit from conducting polymers seems to be more interesting and promising. Electroconductive polymers exhibit excellent electrical properties and have been explored in the past few decades for a number of applications. In particular, due to the ease of synthesis, cytocompatibility, and good conductivity, some kind of conducting polymers have been extensively studied for biological and medical applications. Different forms of conducting polymers such as polypyrrole (PPy), polythiophene (PT), polyaniline (PANI), poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) etc. are used in our daily life due to their uniqe properties which can be applied in different applications. These materials have a conjugated π electron system with “metal-like” electrical conductivity. Due to the rich chemistry of conducting polymers, they have attracted the attention of many researchers and leading to the publication of thousands of papers. The most important property of conducting polymers is their electrical conductivity, so the first approach is to study their electrical-related biological behaviors. Neurons are well known for the membrane-potential-wave style signal transduction. Hence, early studies were focused on the electrical stimulation to the neuron cells using conducting polymers as electrodes. The results showed that the electric conducting polymers can be used as biological electrodes and the neuron growth can be enhanced under an electrical field.
Using conducting polymers in nanocomposite scaffold design is relatively new in tissue engineering applications [17]. It has been demonstrated that these conducting nanocomposites are able to accept and modulate the growth of different cell types [18] including endothelial cells, [19] nerve cells [20] and chromaffin cells [21]. It has been demonstrated that using conducting nanocomposite scaffolds are most promissing in nerve tissue engineering. These electroconductive polymers have been recognized as potential nanocomposite scaffold materials to electrically stimulate tissues for therapeutic purposes in tissue engineering scaffolds. Based on the literature search within the last decade, the present chapter summarized the strategy of electroconductive nanocomposite scaffolds for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine purposes.
2. Conductive polymers
2.1. General approaches and considerations
Conducting polymers are a special class of materials with electronic and ionic conductivity [22]. The structures of the widely used conducting polymers are depicted in Fig. 1 [23]. These polymers have immense applications in the fields of drug delivery, neuroprosthetic devices, cardiovascular applications, bioactuators, biosensors, the food industry and etc.
One of the first electrically conducting polymers, polypyrrole (PPy) was introduced in the 1960s, but little was understood about this polymer at that time [24]. In 1977, a research team reported a 10 million-fold increase in the conductivity of polyacetylene doped with iodine as the first inherently conducting polymer [25,26]. Unlike polyacetylene, polyphenylenes, are known to be thermally stable as a result of their aromaticity [27]. Polyheterocycles, such as PPy, polythiophene (PT), polyaniline (PANI), and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT), developed in the 1980s, have since emerged as another class of aromatic conducting polymers that exhibit good stabilities, conductivities, and ease of synthesis [28]. Table 1 shows a list of different conducting polymers and their conductivities [29].
Conducting polymers have an inherently unstable backbone, resulting from the formation of alternate single and double bonds along with the monomer units during polymerization. The delocalized π bonding electrons, produced across the conjugated backbone, provide an electrical pathway for mobile charge carriers which are introduced through doping. Consequently, the electronic properties, as well as many other physicochemical properties, are determined by the structure of the polymer backbone and the nature and the concentration of the dopant ion [30].
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Polyacetlene (PA) | 200-1000 | n,p |
Polyparaphenylene (PPP) | 500 | n,p |
Polyparaphenylene sulfide (PPS) | 3-300 | p |
Polyparavinylene (PPv) | 1-1000 | p |
Polypyrrole (PPy) | 40-200 | p |
Polythiophene (PT) | 10-100 | p |
Polyisothionaphthene (PITN) | 1-50 | p |
Polyaniline (PANI) | 5 | n,p |
Conjugated aliphatics, including polyacetylene, and benzene derivatives such as PANI, have been largely ruled out for biomedical applications due to their oxidative degradation in air and the cytotoxic nature of their by-products. Although recent research has shown that the emeraldine salt of PANI (EPANI) can be successfully fabricated in a biocompatible form [31,32], modern biomedical conducting polymers are typically composed of heterocyclic aromatics, such as derivatives of thiophene and pyrrole [33,34]. Specifically, PEDOT and PPy have been widely studied for their superior environmental and electrochemical stability [35-37]. Fig. 2 shows the chemical structure of various thiophene derivatives including EDOT, EDOT-MeOH and 3-alkylthiophene [30].
2.2. Surface modification of conducting polymers
For biomedical approaches, sometimes we need to modify the outer surface of the materials to induce special features. Conducting polymers can be also modified to enhance the functionality of nanocomposites. The surface modifications of conducting polymers have some concerns including:
Enhancement of the charge transport of carriers between the implant and tissue
Mediating the large difference in mechanical modulus
Improvement of biodegradation
Decreasing the impedance to enhance the sensitivity of the recording site
Cell response enhancement
Bioactivity enhancement
Surface modification and functionalization of conducting polymers with different biomolecules or dopants has allowed us to modify them with biological sensing elements, and to turn on and off different signalling pathways required for cellular processes. In this way, conducting polymers can show significant enhancement in cell proliferation and differentiation. Thus, conducting polymers provides an excellent opportunity for fabrication of highly selective, biocompatible, specific and stable nanocomposite scaffolds for tissue engineering of different organs [39,40].
2.3. General use of conducting polymers
A range of applications for conducting polymers are currently being considered, such as the development of tissue-engineered organs [41], controlled drug release [42], repaire of nerve chanels [43], and the stimulation of nerve regeneration [44]. In addition, electrically active tissues (such as brain, heart and skeletal muscle) provide opportunities to couple electronic devices and computers with human or animal tissues to create therapeutic body–machine interfaces [45]. The conducting and semiconducting properties of this class of polymers make them important for a wide range of applications. The important properties of various conducting polymers and their potential applications are discussed in Table 2 [23].
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Highly conductive Opaque Brittle Amorphous structure |
biosensors drug delivery bioactuators Nerve tissue engineering Cardiac tissue engineering Bone tissue engineering |
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Good electrical conductivity Good optical property |
Biosensors Food industry |
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A semiflexible rod polymer Requires simple doping/dedoping chemistry Exists as bulk films or dispersions High conductivity up to 100 S/cm |
Biosensors Drug delivery Bioactuators Nerve tissue engineering Cardiac tissue engineering |
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High temperature stability Transparent conductor Moderate band gap Low redoxpotential conductivity up to 210 S/cm |
Biosensors Antioxidants Drug delivery neural prosthetics |
2.4. Conductivity mechanism
Generally, polymers with loosely held electrons in their backbones can be called conducting polymers. Each atom on the backbone has connection with a
One of the most important challenges of nanocomposite scaffolds based on conducting polymers is their inherent inability to degrade in the body, which may induce chronic inflammation [49]. Hence, belending of conducting polymers with biodegradable polymers seems to solve the problem. PPy and PANI are the most importan conducting polymers for tissue engineering, and they are important in terms of their biocompatibility and cell signaling especially for nerve tissue engineering [24].
2.5. Polypyrrole
PPy is among one of the first conducting polymers that studied a lot for its effect on the behaviour of cells. This material has been reported to support cell adhesion and growth of different cells [50]. This conducting synthetic polymer has numerous applications in tissue engineering and drug delivery. Recently, Moroder
2.6. Polyaniline
PANI is an oxidative polymeric product of aniline under acidic conditions and is commonly known as aniline black [52]. The exploration of PANI for tissue-engineering applications has progressed more slowly than the development of PPy for similar applications. However, recently there has been more evidence of the ability of PANI and PANI variants to support cell growth [53]. Recently, Fryczkowski
2.7. Poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)
Although PPy and PANI have been the most extensively conductive polymers for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, recently the potential of polythiophene conductive polymer for tissue engineering have been approved. This polymer has received significant attention due to a wide range of promising electronic and electrochemical applications [55,56]. PEDOT can be considered as the most successful polythiophene due to its specific characteristics [57-65]. PEDOT can also be considered as the most stable conducting polymer currently available because of not only high conductivity but also unusual environmental and electrochemical stabilities in the oxidized state [57-60]. Recently, Bolin
2.8. Piezoelectric polymeric nanocomposites
Recent studies on the application of conductive materials showed that piezoelectric polymeric materials can also be considered for tissue engineering applications. Piezoelectric polymeric materials can generate surface charges by even small mechanical deformations [67]. Poly(vinylidenefluoride) (PVDF) is a synthetic, semicrystalline polymer with piezoelectric properties that can be potentially used for biomedical application due to their unique molecular structure [107]. An electrical charged porous nanocomposite could be a promising approach for a number of tissue engineering applications. Reported data on piezoelectric polymeric nanocomposites showed that after electrical stimulation, cellular interaction and tissue growth might be improved [68].
3. Applications of conducting polymers
3.1. Applications of conducting polymers: general view
Conductive polymers exhibit attractive properties such as ease of synthesis and processing [69]. The unique properties of this type of materials have recently given a wide range of applications in the biological field. Research on conductive polymers for biomedical applications expanded extrimly in the 1980s, and they were shown via electrical stimulation, to modulate cellular activities (e.g. cell adhesion, migration, DNA synthesis and protein secretion) [70-73]. Since then many studies have been done on nerve, bone, muscle, and cardiac cells. The unique characteristics of conducting polymers have been shown to be useful in many biomedical applications, specially tissue engineering nanocomposite scaffolds and drug delivery devices [74]. In comparison to other conductive materials for biological applications, conducting polymers are inexpensive, easy to synthesize, and versatile. In addition, conducting polymers permit control over the level and duration of electrical stimulation for tissue engineering applications.
3.2. Use and modification of conducting polymers for drug delivery
Developing novel drug-delivery systems will open up new applications that were previously unsuited to traditional delivery systems. The use of conducting polymers in drug delivery is an excellent approach due to their biocompatibility and their possibility of using them in
3.3. Use and modification of conducting polymers for bioactuators
Bioactuators are devices that are used to create mechanical force, which in turn can be used as artificial muscles. The phenomenon of change in the volume of the conducting polymers scaffold upon electrical stimulation has been employed in the construction of bioactuators. In artificial muscle applications, two layers of conducting polymers are placed in a triple layer arrangement, where the middle layer comprises a non-conductive material [81]. When current is applied across the two conducting polymers films, one of the films is oxidized and the other is reduced. The oxidized film expands owing to the inflow of dopant ions, whereas the reduced film expels the dopant ions and in the process shrinks, as depicted in Fig. 6 [81]. Conducting actuators have many features that make them ideal candidates for artificial muscles, including that they:
can be electrically controlled,
have a large strain which is favourable for linear, volumetric or bending actuators,
possess high strength,
require low voltage for actuation (1 V or less),
can be positioned continuously between minimum and maximum values,
work at room/body temperature,
can be readily microfabricated and are light weight, and
can operate in body fluids [82].
3.4. Use and modification of conducting polymers for tissue engineering applications
The essential properties of conductive polymers desired for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are conductivity, reversible oxidation, redox stability, biocompatibility, hydrophobicity, three-dimensional geometry and surface topography. Conductive polymers are widely used in tissue engineering due to their ability to subject cells to an electrical stimulation. Studies have addressed cell compatibility when a current or voltage is applied to PPy. An advantage offered by conducting polymers is that the electrochemical synthesis allows direct deposition of a polymer on the surface while simultaneously trapping the protein molecules [84].
In a recent study the release of NGF from PPy nanocomposites by using biotin as a co-dopant during the electrical polymerization was investigated [85]. In this research, NGF was biotinylated and immobilized to streptavidin entrapped within PPy nanocomposites doped with both biotin and dodecylbenzenesulfonate. The release of heparin from hydrogels immobilized onto PPy nanocomposites could also be triggered by electrical stimulation [86]. PVA hydrogels were covalently immobilized onto PPy via grafting of aldehyde groups to PPy and chemical reaction of these with hydroxyl groups from the hydrogel as shown in Fig. 7.
Electrically conducting polymers have attracted much interest for the construction of nerve guidance channels. The use of conducting polymers can help locally deliver electrical stimulus. It can also provide a physical template for cell growth and tissue repair and allow precise external control over the level and duration of stimulation [87,88]. The importance of conducting polymeric nanocomposites is based on the hypothesis that such composites can be used to host the growth of cells, so that electrical stimulation can be applied directly to the cells through the composite, proved to be beneficial in many regenerative medicine strategies, including neural and cardiac tissue engineering [89].
Recently, Li
To test the usefulness of PANI/gelatin blends as a fibrous matrix for supporting cell growth, H9c2 rat cardiac myoblast cells were cultured on fiber-coated glass cover slips. Cell cultures were evaluated in terms of cell proliferation and morphology. According to Fig. 9, the results indicated that all PANI/gelatin blend fibers supported H9c2 cell attachment and proliferation to a similar degree as the control tissue culture-treated plastic (TCP) and smooth glass substrates.
Depending on the concentrations of PANI, the cells initially displayed different morphologies on the fibrous substrates, but after 1week all cultures reached confluence of similar densities and morphology. Taken together they suggested that PANI/gelatin blend nanocomposite fibers could provide a novel conductive material well suited as biocompatible scaffolds for tissue engineering.
4. Conclusion
Tissue engineering is a new concept which is a growing area of research, in which cells are seeded on nanocomposite scaffolds and then implanted in defected part of body. Appropriate stimuli (chemical, biological, mechanical and electrical) can be applied and over a relatively short time new tissue can be formed to help restore function in the patient. The ideal scaffolds should have an appropriate surface chemistry and microstructures to facilitate cellular attachment, proliferation and differentiation. In addition, the scaffolds should possess adequate mechanical strength and biodegradation rate without any undesirable by-products. Among different materials, conducting polymers are one of the materials that can be employed to facilitate communication with neural system for regenerative purposes. In this chapter the recent methods of the synthesis of nanocomposite scaffolds using different conducting polymers was reviewed. The ability of conductive scaffolds to accept and modulate the growth of a few different cell types including endothelial, nerve, and chromaffin cells have shown a bright future in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Acknowledgments
This review chapter book is partially based upon work supported by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) High Temperature Materials program under grant no. FA9550-10-1–0010 and the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant no. 0933763.
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