Pressure-Assisted Spinning: A Versatile and Economical, Direct Fibre to Scaffold Spinning Methodology
✍ Scribed by Sumathy Arumuganathar; Suwan N. Jayasinghe
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 300 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1336
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Spinning composite polymer fibres by means of electric fields has been investigated for well over a century. These spun fibres have been explored across many areas of research, spanning the physical to the life sciences; however, electrospinning has the hazardous nature of the high voltage at the spinning needle. We demonstrate here a competing direct fibre to scaffold preparation method, completely determined by an applied pressure. Our technique reported here removes the hazardous high‐voltage element from the fibre/scaffold formation technique and has the ability to form uniaxial fibres and scaffolds comparable to those fabricated by electrospinning. We refer to this fibre generation approach as “pressure‐assisted spinning (PAS)”, which will have a tremendous impact in a range of applications, spanning the physical through to the life sciences. PAS joins the techniques for fibre to scaffold generation with a view to significantly and globally contributing to the micro‐ and nanosciences.
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