Mechanical properties of electrospun bilayer fibrous membranes as potential scaffolds for tissue engineering

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2718-2726

  Pu, Juan ^a   Komvopoulos, Kyriakos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilayer membranes; Deformation; Electrospinning; Fibers; Mechanical behavior

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROSPINNING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FIBERS; FIBROUS MEMBRANES; LACTIC ACID; NANOFIBERS; POROSITY; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN RATE; TISSUE;

BI-LAYER; BILAYER MEMBRANES; HIGH POROSITY; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; PARALLEL DISKS; POLY(L-LACTIC ACID); POLY-L-LACTIC ACIDS; RANDOM FIBERS; RANDOMLY-ORIENTED FIBRES; SINGLE LAYER;

DEFORMATION;

POLY(LEVO LACTIC ACID); POLYLACTIC ACID; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE;

ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL GROWTH; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBER; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MICROFRACTURE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRENGTH; STRETCHING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; YOUNG MODULUS; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84899649523     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: 18787568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2013.12.060     Document Type: Article

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