ABSTRACT
Among the materials employed for the fabrication of the supports for cell growth, a great interest was attributed to bio-based polymers. The chapter presents some essential aspects regarding the rheological behavior involvement of polymers in designing scaffolds with certain architectures, such as porous, fibrous, and hydrogel materials. Also, molecular modeling of the interactions of biodegradable and biocompatible polymers with adhesion proteins is performed for a proper understanding of the forces acting in such bio-systems. In some cases, the polymer alone does not meet the desired demands and it is further doped, thus the micro-structure features of the material are modified as shown in the shear flow and viscoelastic characteristics. Along with rheological performance, a brief presentation of the practical importance of the described bio-based plastics in tissue engineering is done.
