Tissue engineering scaffold based on starch: A review

An ideal scaffold should has a good porosity, acceptable mechanical strength, and biocompatible. One of the way to achieved these criteria is to incorporate polymers in the scaffold fabrication. Starch is one of the most common natural polymers that have been used to fabricate tissue engineering scaffold. Previously, starch as a biomedical material has found wider application such as hydrogel and drug delivery system. Hence, by blending starch with other materials such as Hydroxyapatite (HA) might improve scaffold's properties. This paper reviews how the incorporation of starch is significant to the improvement of scaffold fabrication.