Undesirable postoperative
tissue adhesions remain among the most
common complications after surgery. Apart from pharmacological antiadhesive
agents, various physical barriers have been developed in order to
prevent postoperative tissue adhesions. Nevertheless, many introduced
materials suffer from shortcomings during in vivo application. Thus, there is an increasing need to develop a novel
barrier material. However, various challenging criteria have to be
met, so this issue pushes the research in materials to its current
limits. Nanofibers play a major role in breaking the wall of this
issue. Due to their properties, such as a large surface area for functionalization,
tunable degradation rate, or the possibility of layering individual
nanofibrous materials, it is feasible to create an antiadhesive surface
while maintaining biocompatibility. There are many ways to produce
nanofibrous material; electrospinning is the most used and versatile
technique. This review reveals the different approaches and puts them
into context.