The potential of electrospinning in rapid manufacturing processes: The fundamentals of electrospinning, key process parameters, materials and potential application in rapid manufacturing are presented in this paper

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 63-77

  Mitchell, Geoffrey R ^a   Ahn, Kyung hwa ^b   Davis, Fred J ^b  

^a Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrospinning; Fabrication; Hybrid rapid manufacturing; Nanofibres

Indexed keywords

KEY ELEMENTS; KEY PROCESS; MICRO-SCALES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RAPID MANUFACTURING;

HYBRID MATERIALS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 79960681009     PISSN: 17452759     EISSN: 17452767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2011.590387     Document Type: Review

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