JIANG Jingzhi, MA Liying, CUI Haiting, PENG Peiying, GENG Shimin
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With dichloromethane as solvent, the poly(lactic acid)/poly(caprolactone) mixture tissue engineering scaffolds with mass ratio of 1:1 were prepared by supercritical CO2 induced phase separation-circulation drying process. The influences of operating parameters, such as polymer concentration, operating pressure, operating temperature, cycling drying time and CO2 flow rate, on the pore size and structure are also investigated. The results showed that with the increasing of polymer concentration and operation temperature, the diameters of pore scaffolds decreased. With the increasing of the operating pressure, the diameters of pore scaffolds increased and pore diameter distribution became non-uniform. With the increasing of CO2 flow rate, the diameters of pore scaffolds decreased. Circulation drying time made a little influence on the scaffolds pore diameters, but had an important influence on process feasibility. In the range of this work, the mixture scaffolds, prepared at the blend solution of 25 wt%, the operating pressure of 12 MPa, the operating temperature of 45 ℃, the CO2 flow rates of 31 kg/h, are favorable to tissue engineering.