Summary
Tendons, ligaments and menisci are all fibre-reinforced tissues in which the fibres run in a definite direction, and a scaffold meant to replace them has to reproduce that alignment. This study electrospins chitosan/poly(ethylene oxide) blends into oriented meshes and examines how the degree of orientation affects morphology and mechanical behaviour. Comparing a static plate collector against a rotating disk isolates the contribution of the collector itself - the component that turns a random mat into an aligned one.
Authors & Affiliations
Linari Electrospinning Systems
Linari high voltage generator QCHV-M40 with static and disk collectors
The meshes were produced with a Linari Engineering S.r.l. high voltage generator, model QCHV-M40 (40 kV), used with both a static plate collector and a rotating disk. Swapping the collector to control fibre orientation is exactly the comparison our Starter Kit for aligned nanofibers is built for.