Coalesced Poly(ε-caprolactone) Fibers Are Stronger

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 890-893

  Gurarslan, Alper ^a,b   Caydamli, Yavuz ^a   Shen, Jialong ^a   Tse, Shiaomeng ^c   Yetukuri, Mahijeeth ^d   Tonelli, Alan E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics   (United States)

^d William G Enloe Magnet and GT High School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FIBERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MELT SPINNING; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); TISSUE ENGINEERING; UREA;

COLD-DRAWN; CRYSTALLINITIES; ELONGATION AT BREAK; INCLUSION COMPLEX; MELT-SPUN FIBERS; MELTING AND CRYSTALLIZATION; POLY (EPSILONCAPROLACTONE);

SPINNING (FIBERS);

POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYESTER;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; HEATING; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; POLYESTERS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84924365994     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: 15264602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm501799y     Document Type: Article

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