Fluorinated Biomaterials

The application of supercritical carbon dioxide has
been attracting more attention in the synthesis of
biodegradable polymers. Highly pure products without
residues can be recovered after the polymerization in
supercritical carbon dioxide. In this book, the
synthesis steps of polyester-based biodegradable
polymers and the production of nanofiber scoffolds
from these polymers are reported in details.
For the synthesis of polyester-based biodegradable
polymers, three types of block fluorinated
poly(L-lactide-co- -caprolactone) are synthesized in
supercritical carbon dioxide using reactive
stabilizers including inner fluorinated segment and
polylactide or polycaprolactone side chains.
Perfluoro polyethers can be used as blood substitutes
to deliver oxygen to tissues so that these materials
are promising for biomedical applications.
For the production of nanofiber scoffolds,
electrospinning process is used to fabricate
nanofiber scaffolds from synthesized biodegradable
materials.
Material characterization is carried out by nuclear
magnetic resonance spectroscopy, differential
scanning calorimetry, gel permeation
chromatography,optical microscopy and scanning
electron microscopy.