Renewable Carbon Nanomaterials: Novel Resources for Dental Tissue Engineering
Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi,
Khadije Yousefi,
Seyyed Alireza Hashemi,
Marzie Afsa,
Sonia BahranI,
Ahmad Gholami,
Yasmin Ghahramani,
Ali Alizadeh,
Wei-Hung Chiang
Affiliations
Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi
Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Khadije Yousefi
Biotechnology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 71348-14336, Iran
Seyyed Alireza Hashemi
Nanomaterials and Polymer Nanocomposites Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada
Marzie Afsa
Biotechnology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 71348-14336, Iran
Sonia BahranI
Pharmaceutical Science Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 71348-14336, Iran
Ahmad Gholami
Biotechnology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 71348-14336, Iran
Yasmin Ghahramani
Department of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 71348-14336, Iran
Ali Alizadeh
Department of Tissue Engineering and Applied Cell Sciences, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 71345-1583, Iran
Wei-Hung Chiang
Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Dental tissue engineering (TE) is undergoing significant modifications in dental treatments. TE is based on a triad of stem cells, signaling molecules, and scaffolds that must be understood and calibrated with particular attention to specific dental sectors. Renewable and eco-friendly carbon-based nanomaterials (CBMs), including graphene (G), graphene oxide (GO), reduced graphene oxide (rGO), graphene quantum dots (GQD), carbon nanotube (CNT), MXenes and carbide, have extraordinary physical, chemical, and biological properties. In addition to having high surface area and mechanical strength, CBMs have greatly influenced dental and biomedical applications. The current study aims to explore the application of CBMs for dental tissue engineering. CBMs are generally shown to have remarkable properties, due to various functional groups that make them ideal materials for biomedical applications, such as dental tissue engineering.
