Regeneration of Bombyx mori silk by electrospinning—part 1: processing parameters and geometric properties

Sukigara, Sachiko; Gandhi, Milind; Ayutsede, Jonathan; Micklus, Michael J.; Ko, Frank

doi:10.1016/s0032-3861(03)00532-9

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“…As shown by Ko's group [1,12], nanofibers can be produced by electrospinning. Electrospinning the crystalline polymer, polylactic acid, poly acrylic nitrile, and the polyethylene oxide can produce nanofibers relatively easily.…”

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Characteristics of Elastomeric Nanofiber Membranes Produced by Electrospinning

Yamashita

Tanaka

et al. 2007

J. Text. Eng.

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This study examines the feasibility of co-electrospinning vapor grown carbon nanofibers (VGNF) within thermoplastic elastomer. The reinforcement effect was studied. The diameter of the thermoplastic elastomer was found to range from 0.5 to 3 μm. The mechanical properties of the electrospun fibrous structure were found to be similar to that of cast elastomeric films. However, the electrospun fibrous membranes have superior tactile properties. The addition of VGNF significantly increases the bulkiness of the fibrous elastomeric membranes.

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“…Most of the polymers that have been successfully electrospun are crystalline polymers having a molecular weight over 100,000 [1]. Only a few studies have been reported on elastomers.…”

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Characteristics of Elastomeric Nanofiber Membranes Produced by Electrospinning

Yamashita

Tanaka

et al. 2007

J. Text. Eng.

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“…In addition, it was found that SF had a good anti-thrombogenicity and absorbability even though the polymer showed foreign body reaction [65]. Pure SF nanofibers can be made by electrospinning of SF in formic acid [66]. Similarly, SF/chitosan nanofibers can be made by electrospinning of SF/chitosan blends containing up to the chitosan content of 30% in formic acid [67].…”

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Preparations, properties and applications of chitosan based nanofibers fabricated by electrospinning

Sun¹,

Li²

2011

Express Polym. Lett.

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Chitosan is soluble in most acids. The protonation of the amino groups on the chitosan backbone inhibits the electrospinnability of pure chitosan. Recently, electrospinning of nanofibers based on chitosan has been widely researched and numerous nanofibers containing chitosan have been prepared by decreasing the number of the free amino groups of chitosan as the nanofibiers have enormous possibilities for better utilization in various areas. This article reviews the preparations and properties of the nanofibers which were electrospun from pure chitosan, blends of chitosan and synthetic polymers, blends of chitosan and protein, chitosan derivatives, as well as blends of chitosan and inorganic nanoparticles, respectively. The applications of the nanofibers containing chitosan such as enzyme immobilization, filtration, wound dressing, tissue engineering, drug delivery and catalysis are also summarized in detail

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“…A jet of polymer is ejected, which produces the fibers, same instant the solvent starts evaporating due to jet formation and continues after the nanofibers are deposited to collector. More than 200 polymers are used for electrospinning like silk fibroin (Zarkoob et al, 2004;Sukigara et al, 2003;Jin et al, 2004), collagen (Mathews et al, 2002), chitosan (Ohkawa et al, 2004), gelatin (Ma et al, 2005) etc. In the field of tissue engineering electrospinning technique is applied for the preparation of nanofiber scaffold design.…”

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confidence: 99%