Easy Drum

Easy Drum is the perfect machine for those who already have a Starter Kit or another conventional electrospinning system, allowing them to go from a static nanofiber collection system to a dynamic one.

Easy Drum is a system that permits the rotation of drum, wire or disk collectors.

VERSATILE AND HIGH PERFORMANCES ROTARY SYSTEM

Easy Drum is a rotary system for electrospinning applications that enables you to obtain aligned micro/nanofibers using drum or disk collectors. We have different models available for every electrospinning use. Gain rotational speeds of up to 3000rpm, or 5000rpm with the high-speed drum in order to form aligned fibres with the easy drum rotational unit.

WHAT KIND OF FIBERS DO YOU GET WITH THIS MACHINE?

Using rotational drums, you gain the ability to produce perfectly aligned fibres. Aligned nanofibres have gained a lot of interest in recent years, especially within the field of regenerative medicine and biomaterials.

WHAT ADVANTAGES DO YOU GET FROM USING THIS MACHINE?

Why alignment is worth a rotary unit

On a static collector the jet whips freely and the fibers land in every direction. As soon as the collector rotates fast enough, each fiber is caught, stretched and wound along the rotation direction: the deposit becomes anisotropic, and the fibers themselves become thinner and more crystalline because of the additional drawing.

This is what makes rotary collection worth it:

• Regenerative medicine - aligned fibers guide cell orientation on nerve, tendon, muscle and vascular scaffolds, where a random mat simply does not work.
• Tubular structures - vascular grafts and conduits produced directly on a cylindrical collector and removed whole, without cutting the membrane.
• Sensors and composites - directional electrical, optical and mechanical properties along the fiber axis.
• Thinner fibers - the mechanical drawing at high speed reduces the average diameter compared to a static plate.

Three models, one decision

The choice comes down to two questions: how fast, and does the collector need to be at high voltage?

• BI-EASY-DRUM (standard) - 75 to 3000 rpm, grounded collector. Enough for most aligned-fiber work.
• BI-EASY-DRUM-HS (high speed) - from 0 to 5000 rpm, grounded. Choose it when you need the highest degree of alignment and the thinnest fibers.
• BI-EASY-DRUM-HSI (high speed + insulation) - 0 to 5000 rpm with the collector insulated from ground up to 40 kV. Required when you want to bias the collector with a second generator, and the version used on our Gantry 3D Spin.

All three take collectors from 1 to 100 mm in diameter and up to 150 mm long, mounted and removed quickly thanks to the self-centering chucks.

TECHNICAL FEATURES OF THE DEVICE

• Compact size, easy installation, ready to use.
• Rotary system with sealed brushless motor without forced ventilation to avoid the contamination of the nanofibers and their dispersion due to draughts of air.
• Easy replacement of the collector thanks to self-centering chucks.
• Speed of rotation up to 5000 rpm in both directions.
• Electric control panel with digital indication of speed.
• Built-in collector grounding connections for minimum electric resistance.
• High voltage insulation capability up to 40 kV.

ROTATION UNIT DIMENSIONS

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TECHNICAL ADVANTAGES OF THE DEVICE

• Flexibility: you can, each time, create the best needle-collector configuration thanks to the absence of geometric restrictions of the device with respect to the syringe.
• Reliability: the use of Omron Electronics industrial components for the control electronics guarantees the maximum reliability of the system also under heavy use conditions.

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STANDARD PRODUCT INCLUDED

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COMPATIBILITIES

Complete electrospinning systems

If instead of upgrading you need a machine that produces nanofibers on its own, these arrive complete and ready to run - chamber, generator, pump, needles and collectors included:

Not sure which one? Talk to an R&D expert - or have our laboratory in Pisa validate your nanofiber first.

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