Ng, Joanna L.
Knothe, Lillian E.
Whan, Renee M.
Knothe, Ulf
Tate, Melissa L. Knothe
Article History
Received: 19 June 2015
Accepted: 7 December 2016
First Online: 11 January 2017
Competing interests
: M.L.K.T. and U.K. have a patent issued on 17 March 2015, entitled ‘A Surgical Membrane’. M.K.T. has patents pending on the biologically-inspired functional textile intellectual property (filed August 2014 and June 2016). M.K.T. and U.K. are Co-Founders of TissuTex Pty Ltd TT PeriOz, a subsidiary of TissuTex, was recently spun off with Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic to commercialize surgical implants inspired by periosteum’s intrinsic weave.