Carbon nanofiber reinforced polycaprolactone fibrous meshes by electrostatic co-spinning

Current Nanoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 753-761

  Deshpande, Himani D ^a   Dean, Derrick R ^a   Thomas, Vinoy ^a,b   Clem, William C ^c   Jose, Moncy V ^a   Nyairo, Elijah ^d   Mishra, Manoj ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanofiber; Electrospinning; Nanofiber scaffolds; Polycaprolactone

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE SCAFFOLDS; CRYSTALLINITIES; DEGREE OF ORIENTATION; ELECTROSPUNS; EXTRACELLULAR PROTEINS; HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (HMSCS); MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; NANO-FIBROUS; NANOFIBER SCAFFOLD; NANOSCALE MORPHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE-MODIFIED; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS; TENSILE TESTS; XRD;

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; BIOMECHANICS; CARBON NANOFIBERS; ELECTROSPINNING; ELECTROSTATICS; MORPHOLOGY; POLYCAPROLACTONE; STEM CELLS; STIFFNESS; TENSILE TESTING;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

CARBON NANOFIBER; NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYCAPROLACTONE;

ARTICLE; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTROSPINNING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84867787921     PISSN: 15734137     EISSN: 18756786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157341312802884409     Document Type: Article

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