Patent ID: 8871512
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: A61L,C07H,C08F,C09J

Abstract:
1. A biocompatible material providing a porous structure within which living tissue may grow, the biocompatible material comprising: a sugar-acrylic polymer formed into a porous structure to allow ingrowth of living tissue, the sugar-acrylic polymer comprising at least one polymerized first acrylate monomer having a pendant carbohydrate moiety linked to an acrylate group of the first acrylate monomer, the pendant carbohydrate moiety comprising a derivative of a carbohydrate selected from the group consisting of allose, altrose, glucose, mannose, gulose, idose, galactose, talose, psicose, fructose, sorbose, tagatose, ribose, arabinose, xylose, lyxose, ribulose, xylulose, erythose, threose, erythrulose, glyceraldehydes, altro-heptulose, L-glycero-D-manno-heptose, and combinations thereof; wherein the porous structure of the biocompatible material has a thickness from about 100 micrometers to about 1000 micrometers, and pores having a size from about 10 nm to about 200 micrometers.