ABSTRACT
In recent years, a great deal of attention has been directed toward nanotechnology and the potential benefits that this growing field may bring to a wide variety of engineering applications. One of the many applications of nanotechnology toward the biomedical sciences is the advancement of biomaterials designed for tissue engineering, especially those intended for biological tissues with complex properties. Nanoscience will be particularly useful in tissue engineering since the interactions between cells and biomaterials occur in the nanoscale and the components of biological tissues are nanomaterials themselves.
