Mechanical properties of electrospun fibers—a critical review

TU Rashid, RE Gorga… - Advanced Engineering …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The mechanical properties of electrospun fibers play an important role in determining their
applications. Most of the reported literature measures the mechanical properties of …

Morphology and properties of electrospun PCL and its composites for medical applications: A mini review

MJ Mochane, TS Motsoeneng, ER Sadiku… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Polycaprolactone (PCL) is one of the most used synthetic polymers for medical applications
due to its biocompatibility and slow biodegradation character. Combining the inherent …

Polymeric wound dressings, an insight into polysaccharide-based electrospun membranes

M Gruppuso, G Turco, E Marsich, D Porrelli - Applied Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Chronic wounds deeply invalidate patient's quality of life, involving very high costs for the
medical system. Numerous wound dressings have been studied over the years, and active …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of molecular weight and fiber diameter on the mechanical properties of single, electrospun PCL nanofibers

N Alharbi, A Daraei, H Lee, M Guthold - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Biomaterials based on electrospun nanofibers are increasingly used in biomedical
applications. Polycaprolactone (PCL) is a biocompatible, biodegradable, FDA-approved …

Controlled release of lawsone from polycaprolactone/gelatin electrospun nano fibers for skin tissue regeneration

M Adeli-Sardou, MM Yaghoobi… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, we aimed to evaluate the role of electrospun nanofibers containing lawsone (2-
hydroxy-1, 4-naphthoquinone) in wound healing. Different concentrations of lawsone (0.5 …

Cell-matrix mechanical interaction in electrospun polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering: Implications for scaffold design and performance

KM Kennedy, A Bhaw-Luximon, D Jhurry - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Engineered scaffolds produced by electrospinning of biodegradable polymers offer a 3D,
nanofibrous environment with controllable structural, chemical, and mechanical properties …

Mechanical behavior of a soft hydrogel reinforced with three-dimensional printed microfibre scaffolds

M Castilho, G Hochleitner, W Wilson… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Reinforcing hydrogels with micro-fibre scaffolds obtained by a Melt-Electrospinning Writing
(MEW) process has demonstrated great promise for developing tissue engineered (TE) …

Antibacterial electrospun chitosan-polyethylene oxide nanocomposite mats containing ZIF-8 nanoparticles

I Kohsari, Z Shariatinia, SM Pourmortazavi - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial chitosan⿿ polyethylene oxide (CS-PEO) nanofiber mats loaded with 3, 5 and
10%(w/w) of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 nanoparticles (ZIF-8 NPs,⿼ 60 nm diameter) …

Electrospun essential oil-doped chitosan/poly (ε-caprolactone) hybrid nanofibrous mats for antimicrobial food biopackaging exploits

AH Ardekani-Zadeh, SF Hosseini - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of antimicrobial electrospun nanofibrous mats is one of the most
recent trends in the field of food biopackaging. Herein, novel antimicrobial fibrous mats …

Characterization of novel natural cellulosic fibers from purple bauhinia for potential reinforcement in polymer composites

G Rajeshkumar, GL Devnani, JP Maran, MR Sanjay… - Cellulose, 2021 - Springer
The aim of the present work was to extract novel natural cellulosic fibers from the leaves of
purple bauhinia trees. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that, the …