Electrospun fibres, polymer types/materials

Table 4.1 List of polymer types/materials and properties/applications for electrospun fibres...

A wide range of polymers from solution, sol-gel suspension, or melt can be electrospun into nanofibres. To date, over 200 types of various materials including natural polymers, synthetic polymers and hybrid blends have been used to obtain electrospun fibres [36]. Due to the practicality, mouldability, flexibility, lightness, durability and chemical and physicochemical stability, natural polymers are more preferable to synthetic polymers. Therefore, four major classes of biopolymers including proteins, polysaccharides, deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs) and lipids as well as their derivatives have been fabricated into electrospun scaffolds [37, 38], The most popular natural polymers include chitosan, collagen, gelatin, casein, hyaluronic acids, silk protein, chitin and fibrinogen [37-43]. 

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