Electrospinning of nanofibres for construction of vital organ replacements

Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ICONN

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 585-587

  Owida, Amal ^a   Xiu, Mei Mo ^b   Wong, Cynthia S ^a   Morsi, Yos S ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Elxtrospinning; Nanofibres; Polyurethane

Indexed keywords

AMINES; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROSPINNING; HYDROGELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOFIBERS; NANOSCIENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; PROTEINS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SPINNING (FIBERS);

CELLULAR ENVIRONMENTS; CHITOSAN COMPLEX; CLINICAL APPLICATIONS; HEART VALVES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NANOFIBRES; NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY (NST); ORGAN REPLACEMENT; POLYMER FIBRES; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL (SMC); SPIN ON;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 48749097042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICONN.2006.340685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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