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Near-Field Electrospinning and Melt Electrowriting of Biomedical Polymers—Progress and Limitations
- Source :
- Polymers, Polymers, Vol 13, Iss 1097, p 1097 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI, 2021.
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Abstract
- Near-field electrospinning (NFES) and melt electrowriting (MEW) are the process of extruding a fiber due to the force exerted by an electric field and collecting the fiber before bending instabilities occur. When paired with precise relative motion between the polymer source and the collector, a fiber can be directly written as dictated by preprogrammed geometry. As a result, this precise fiber control results in another dimension of scaffold tailorability for biomedical applications. In this review, biomedically relevant polymers that to date have manufactured fibers by NFES/MEW are explored and the present limitations in direct fiber writing of standardization in published setup details, fiber write throughput, and increased ease in the creation of complex scaffold geometries are discussed.
- Subjects :
- chemistry.chemical_classification
Scaffold
Materials science
Polymers and Plastics
fiber write
Biomedical polymers
near-field electrospinning
Near and far field
Nanotechnology
General Chemistry
Polymer
Bending
Review
Electrospinning
biomedical polymer
lcsh:QD241-441
chemistry
lcsh:Organic chemistry
Electric field
melt electrowrite
Fiber
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20734360
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Polymers
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....186453a1b4941510d7c0b9ed3f457fad