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Tissue engineering is an emerging multidisciplinary field that aims to regenerate damaged or lost tissues/organs of living organisms using a combination of cells and scaffolds. Scaffolds provide environments for cells/tissues to grow in an orderly manner and become functionalized into new tissues/organs. When considering the importance of intercellular interactions between scaffolds and implanted surrounding cells/tissues, significant efforts have been made to design an artificial extracellular matrix (ECM) consisting of complex fibrous structures. Electrospun scaffolds have remarkable potential to provide nanoscale/microscale fibrous structures that are similar to the native ECM. This book focuses on the current state of fibrous scaffold production techniques in 2-D and 3-D dimensions and their recent tissue engineering applications.

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Simsek, Murat
Murat Simsek is currently assistant professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering at Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey. He recieved his pHD and MSc degrees from Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine and Bioengineering department at Hacettepe Universty, respectively. His research areas mainly based on electrospinning and tissue engineering.

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