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Post date: Mar 3, 2010 6:56:04 AM

We have recently found two pressure assisted and driven approaches complimenting aerodynamically assisted threading in the endeavour for forming continuous fibres, scaffolds and membranes. Moreover these techniques unearthed in our laboratory demonstrate the ability to cross the three materials boundaries spanning structural, functional and biological while forming multi-structural fibres (hollow and /or porous).

See the following papers,

S. Arumuganathar, and S.N. Jayasinghe, Pressure assisted spinning: A versatile and economical direct fibre to scaffold spinning methodology, Macro. Mol. Rapid Comm., 28(2007)1491-1496.

S. Arumuganathar, S. Irvine, J.R. McEwan and S.N. Jayasinghe, A novel pressure assisted cell spinning protocol for directly processing living primary cells as biologically viable cell-bearing threads to scaffolds and membranes, Biomedical Materials, 2(2007) 211-219.

S.N. Jayasinghe and N. Suter, Pressure driven spinning: A multifaceted approach for preparing nanoscaled functionalized fibers, scaffolds, and membranes with advanced materials, Biomicrofluidics, 4(2010) 014106.