Electrospinning fabrication techniques

Scaffolds can be fabricated by using different types of methodologies such as fiber bonding, salt leaching, gas-induced foaming, phase separation, electrospinning, solid freeform fabrication, and molecular self assembly [15, 17]. Some of the fabrication techniques are discussed below. 

Highly porous chitosan-gelatin scaffolds by combining three different fabrication techniques, i.e., rapid prototyping, microreplication, and freeze-drying Natural nanofibrous scaffolds by electrospinning of GC into nanofibers... 

Design and fabrication of multidimensional nanostructures have been discussed for metals and ceramics in the previous chapters and most of the fabrication methods introduced earlier can be transferred to polymeric and composite systems. Generally, polymeric and composite nanostructures of different dimensions from 0-D (e.g., nanoparticles, nanodots) to 3-D (nanoscaffolds) can be fabricated by nanopattem-ing techniques, colloidal processes, electrospinning, physical and chemical vapor depositions, porogen strategy, self-assembly, and so on. These fabrication techniques discussed in the previous chapters are transferrable for preparing nanopolymers and... 

Bhardwaj, N. and Kundu, S. (2010) Electrospinning a fascinating fiber fabrication technique. Biotechnol. Adv., 28, 325-347. 

Bhardwaj N and Kundu S C (2010) Electrospinning A fascinating fiber fabrication technique,... 

Therefore, electrospiiming is considered to he an ideal fabrication technique for wound dressings. Nanofibrous wound dressings with well-controlled nanofeatures mandatory for wound healing can be obtained through electrospinning (Ladd et al. 2008 Yang et al. 2009 Zahedi et al. 2009). 

This chapter will discuss electrospinning as a promising fabrication technique for scaffolding, current applications of electrospun scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering, as well as limitations with the use of such scaffolds for translational applications. 

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