Blend electrospinning

Steyaert I, Van der Schueren L, Rahier H, de Clerck K (2012) An alternative solvent system for blend electrospinning of polycaprolactone/chitosan nanofibres. Macromol S3unp 321-322 (l) 71-75. doi 10.1002/masy.201251111... 

Blend electrospinning occurs when two or more miscible solutions are combined into a single feed system and fed through a common spinneret for desired final material properties (Fig. 10.5). Although this procedure is not the most common technique, the advantage of this particular method is its ability to modify the chemical... 

Figure 10.5 A schematic of blend electrospinning in which two different polymeric solutions are independently fed into the same reservoir, mixed together, and are emitted through a single capillary.

PF nanofibers are a second example of a top-down nanostructure. These fibers are conveniently prepared by electrospinning [143,144], a technique applied to PFs in work by Chen et al. [145] and Jenekhe et al. [146]. An example of PF8 nanofibers is shown in Fig. 34. In this study various different PFs were blended with PMMA and depending on the molar ratio and mother solution used, either uniform or core-shell structures were obtained. PF ag-... 

Ding B et al (2004) Fabrication of blend biodegradable nanofibrous nonwoven mats via multi-jet electrospinning. Polymer 45(6) 1895-1902... 

Safi S et al (2007) Study of electrospinning of sodium alginate, blended solutions of sodium alginate/poly(vinyl alcohol) and sodium alginate/poly(ethylene oxide). J Appl Polym Sci 104 (5) 3245-3255... 

Fig. 6 Functionalization of polymer fibers for nerve regeneration, (a) Functionalization with adsorption or covalent binding of ECM molecules to electrospun polymer fibers [169]. (b) Functionalization by blending of ECM molecules with synthetic polymers before electrospinning [93]. (c) Functionalization by chemical bulk modification of the electrospinnuig solution [158]...

McClure MJ et al (2009) Electrospinning-aligned and random polydioxanone-polycaprolactone-silk fibroin-blended scaffolds geometry for a vascular matrix. Biomed Mater 4(5) 055010... 

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