10. Textile Scaffold

Research

Textile scaffolds are innovative structures developed to support cell growth and tissue regeneration in the field of tissue engineering. These scaffolds are created using textile-based techniques, such as weaving, knitting, or braiding, which provide customizable and intricate three-dimensional architectures. The flexibility of textile scaffolds allows for precise control over their mechanical properties, porosity, and geometry, making them highly adaptable to various biological applications.

Fabric-based scaffolds are a cutting-edge innovation in tissue engineering, leveraging textile manufacturing techniques such as weaving, knitting, braiding, and nonwoven processes to create highly adaptable and customizable structures. These scaffolds are designed to replicate the intricate network of the extracellular matrix (ECM), providing physical support for cellular attachment, proliferation, and tissue formation.

The use of textiles offers unique advantages due to their versatility in design. Mechanical properties of fabric scaffolds can be finely tuned by adjusting the weaving or knitting patterns, fiber materials, and production methods. This flexibility allows fabric-based scaffolds to meet the specific demands of different tissues, such as the strength required for bone regeneration or the elasticity needed for skin and cartilage repair.

Fabric scaffolds are typically composed of biodegradable and biocompatible materials, such as poly(lactic acid) (PLA), polycaprolactone (PCL), or natural fibers like silk and collagen. These materials ensure that the scaffold degrades over time as the tissue regenerates, leaving no foreign residues. Moreover, fabric scaffolds can be functionalized with bioactive agents, such as growth factors or antimicrobial coatings, to enhance cellular responses and minimize infection risks.

The development of fabric scaffolds represents a fusion of traditional textile engineering with modern applications, offering a scalable and cost-effective approach to creating complex three-dimensional structures.

Inspiration

• Myko.Plektonik Myko.Plektonik: Scaffold for Fungal Growth

The project »Myko.Plektonik« explores the growth of fungal mycelium on the »Plektonik« structural textiles. The material composition of the »active« yarns was derived from this process to ensure that biological growth can materialize

• 4TU Design United Exploring SCOBY-Based Composite Materials with Textile Scaffolding Integration

The project takes a material-driven approach and focuses on bio-fabrication experiments to control and manipulate SCOBY’s self-assembling and adherence abilities on textile scaffolding. The goal is to design a fabrication process that creates shapes and aesthetics that are unachievable without the textile scaffolding system, emphasizing the significance of DIY fabrication methods.

• Material Driven Material driven

Material driven are a strategic interface between advanced, sustainable materials and their applications in the design industries. Creating immersive exhibitions and large-scale temporary installations for our clients, focussed on new, sustainable and sensory materials.

References & Inspiration

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• Two images side-by-side

• Image reference

centered image with credits/reference

• Download reference

Links to reference files, PDF, booklets,

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Overview material research outcomes

example from the documentation of Loes Bogers TextileLab Amsterdam 2019-20

Biofoam	Gelatin foil	Bioresin	Biosilicone
Starch Rubber	Biolinoleum	Alginate net	Alginate foil
Alginate string	Agar foil	Bio composite	Reused PLA

Tools

• slides
• sources
• pots, jars...
• spoon, tongs, wisk etc
• molds, textiles, textures, etc

Process and workflow

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Ingredients & Recipes

Prepare this recipe ¹ by collecting the ingredients necessary, to be found in the list below:

=== "Ingredients"

    * 100 g water
    * 35 g CuSO4.5H20 or 65 g Borax

For the handling of these compounds it is necessary to review the safety data sheet.

• MSDS - MSDS-BORAX

• MSDS - MSDS-Sulfato cuprico

  tools

  • 250 mL beakers
  • Magnetic stirrer
  • stirring/heating grill
  • Analytical balance
  • Spatule

  === recipe

  * To weigh all ingredients. 
  * To pre-heat grill to 37 C. 
  * To heat water to 70C. 
  * To dissolve Cu in water at 350 rpm. 
  * To remove mixture from grill until compound is fully dissolved.
  

Documenting and comparing experiments

TEST SERIE BIO-PLASTIC

Material pic	Material name	polymer	plastifier	filler	emulsifier
	bio-rainbow	biokelp powder 12 gr	glycerol 100 ml	rainbow dust 1 kg	green soap a drop
	bio-rainbow	biokelp powder 12 gr	glycerol 100 ml	rainbow dust 1 kg	green soap a drop
	bio-rainbow	biokelp powder 12 gr	glycerol 100 ml	rainbow dust 1 kg	green soap a drop
	bio-rainbow	biokelp powder 12 gr	glycerol 100 ml	rainbow dust 1 kg	green soap a drop

RESULTS

Two ways of showcasing and comparing results with images below

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Recipes

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