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Melt Electrospinning Writing of Three-dimensional Poly(ε-caprolactone) Scaffolds with Controllable Morphologies for Tissue Engineering Applications

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12:28 min

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December 23rd, 2017

DOI :

10.3791/56289-v

December 23rd, 2017

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Felix M. Wunner¹, Onur Bas¹, Navid T. Saidy¹, Paul D. Dalton², Elena M. De-Juan Pardo¹, Dietmar W. Hutmacher¹^,³^,⁴

¹ARC ITTC in Additive Biomanufacturing, Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), ²Department for Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry and Bavarian Polymer Institute, University of Würzburg, ³Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich (TUM), ⁴George W Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Summary

This protocol serves as a comprehensive guideline to fabricate scaffolds via electrospinning with polymer melts in a direct writing mode. We systematically outline the process and define the appropriate parameter settings for achieving targeted scaffold architectures.

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Melt Electrospinning

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Chapters in this video

0:00

Title

1:28

Introduction

2:51

Preparation Phase

4:10

Scaffold Production

5:25

Diameter Adjustment

7:25

Jet Optimization

9:55

Results

11:15

Troubleshooting

12:10

Conclusion

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