Designing highly structured polycaprolactone fibers using microfluidics
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Designing highly structured polycaprolactone fibers using microfluidics.
Microfibers are becoming increasingly important for biomedical applications such as regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. We have used a microfluidic approach to create polycaprolactone (PCL) microfibers in a controlled manner. Through the variations of the sheath fluid flow rate and PCL concentration in the core solution, the morphology of the microfibers and their cross-sections can b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1751-6161
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2016.04.005