Electrically conductive nanomaterials for advanced cardiac tissue regeneration

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) compromise the quality of life and have become the leading cause of death worldwide. In the past few decades, emerging therapies for CVD have been investigated by promoting cardiac repair using various biomaterials. Among them, scaffolds that recapitulate the extracellular matrix facilitating the electroconductivity and interconnectivity among the cells have attracted researchers to improve and enhance the patient’s quality of life. This review addresses the recent advances of electrically conductive nanomaterials and nanocomposites to be applied in cardiac tissue engineering. Interdisciplinarity efforts toward innovation in bioengineering launch new and improved biomaterials for clinical applications, which are expected to impact soon.