Polycaprolactone electrospinning

Thomas V et al (2006) Mechano-morphological studies of aligned nanofibrous scaffolds of polycaprolactone fabricated by electrospinning. J Biomater Sci Polym Ed 17(9) 969—984... 

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... 

Alio BA, Rizkalla AS, Mequanint K (2010) Synthesis and electrospinning of e-polycaprolactone-bioactive glass hybrid biomaterials via a sol-gel process. Langmuir 26 18340-18348... 

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Various polymers have been successfully electrospun from solution, sol-gel suspension, or melt into ultrafine nanotibers. For example, as listed in Table 13.2, these polymers included nylon-6 [20, 21], polyacrylonitrile (PAN) [22, 23], polyethylene terephthalate (PET) [24], polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) [25], polystyrene (PS) [26, 27], polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) [28, 29], polyethersulfone (PES) [30], polyimides (PI) [31, 32], polyethylene oxide (PEO) [33], polyurethanes (PU) [34], polycarbonates (PC) [35], polycaprolactone (PCL) [36], polybenzimidazole (PBI) [37, 38], polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) [39], polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) [40], polyvinyl chloride (PVC) [41], polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) [42], hydrox-ypropyl cellulose (HPC) [43], polyglycolic acid (PGA) [44], polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) [45], cellulose acetate (CA) [46,47] and many more. To be used as filtration membranes, nanoflbers made of water-soluble polymers have to be further cross-linked after the electrospinning process. As polymers having different physical and... 

Co-electrospinning has been applied so far for the preparation of polymer core shell fibers, hollow polymer core shell fibers, hollow fibers composed not only of polymers, but also of ceramics, as well as for the immobilization of functional objects in droplets dispersed in the core that are arranged along the fiber axis. Among the examples reported in the literature are core shell fibers spun from polystyrene and polyethylene oxide, two kinds of polyethylene oxide (one with and the other without a chromophore), and core shell fibers with the electrically conductive polymer polyhexathiophene and the insulation polymer polyethylene oxide (Fig. 20). Hollow core shell fibers in which one polymer (polycaprolactone) forms the shell onto which the core material is deposited (polyethylene oxide) as inner wall is another example for the broad spectrum of fiber architectures which can be produced by coelectrospinning. The formation of the two-layer hollow fiber is based on the... 

Detta N, Brown TD, Edin FK, Albrecht K, Chiellini F, ChielUni E, Dalton PD, Hutmacher DW (2010) Melt electrospinning of polycaprolactone and its blends with poly (ethylene glycol). Polym Int 59 1558-1562... 

Zhou FL, Hubbard PL, Eichhom SJ, Parker GJM (2011) Jet deposition in near-field electrospinning of patterned polycaprolactone and sugar-polycaprolactone core-shell fibres. Polymer 52 3603-3610... 

Hua J, Prabhakaran MP, Ding X, Ramakrishna S (2015) Emulsion electrospinning of polycaprolactone influence of surfactant type towards the scaffold properties. J Biomater Sci Polym Ed 26 57-75... 

Bending instability of electrospun nanofibers was demonstrated by the images of electrospinning polycaprolactone, as shown in Figure 15.19 [62]. 

The positive or negative polarity of the high voltage (HV) power supply has been assumed to make no difference in electrospinning. This paper shows the mechanical and physical properties of electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) substrates and the electrospinning process aspects which are affected by the polarity. 

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