Next-Gen Poly(ε-Caprolactone) Scaffolds: Non-Destructive In Vivo Monitoring and Accelerated Biodegradation.

Poly(ɛ-caprolactone) (PCL) is a biocompatible, biodegradable, and highly mechanically resilient FDA-approved material (for specific biomedical applications, e.g. as drug delivery devices, in sutures, or as an adhesion barrier), rendering it a promising candidate to serve bone tissue engineering.

Volumetric Printing of Thiol-Ene Photo-Cross-Linkable Poly(ε-caprolactone): A Tunable Material Platform Serving Biomedical Applications.

Current thoroughly described biodegradable and cross-linkable polymers mainly rely on acrylate cross-linking. However, despite the swift cross-linking kinetics of acrylates, the concomitant brittleness of the resulting materials limits their applicability. Here, photo-cross-linkable poly(ε-caprolactone) networks through orthogonal thiol-ene chemistry are introduced.