The diameter of collagen fibrils in connective tissues, such as tendons and ligaments is known to decrease upon injury or with age, leading to inferior biomechanical properties and poor healing capacity. This study tests the hypotheses that scaffold fiber diameter modulates the response of human tendon fibroblasts, and that diameter-dependent cell responses are analogous to those seen in health...

fiber diameter is one of the most important morphological parameters which drives applications microfibers. This creates a need for development processes capable producing large variety microfibers with given diameter. To this regards, microfluidic spinning has recently emerged as an outstanding and simple technique production micro- nanofibers controllable size morphology. herein, were produce...

The synthesis and characterization of fibrous materials with a hierarchical structure are great importance for sciences. Among this class materials, microfibers different natures coated carbon nanofibers attract special interest. Such coating modifies the surface microfibers, makes it rougher, thus strengthens its interaction matrices being reinforced by addition these microfibers. In present w...

The cell wall of a zygomycetes fungus was successfully wet spun into monofilament yarns and demonstrated as novel resource for production sustainable textiles. Furthermore, the could be cultivated on bread waste, an abundant food waste with large negative environmental impact if not further utilized. Rhizopus delemar first in bubble column bioreactor. fungal collected through alkali treatment b...

Abstract A crucial property for the evaluation of bioinks, besides biocompatibility, is printability, which determined by resolution and shape fidelity. Recently, fiber reinforcement was used to overcome rheological limitations introduce biomimetic structuring. This study provides a systematic approach evaluate printability reinforced hydrogels. Alginate Pluronic hydrogels were blended with cel...

Polymer nano/micro fibers have found many applications including 3D cell culture and the creation of wound dressings. The fibers can be produced by a variety of techniques that include electrospinning, the primary disadvantage of which include the requirement for a high voltage supply (which may cause issues such as polymer denaturation) and lack of portability. More recently, solution blow spi...

Both chitosan and polylactide/polyglycolide have good biocompatibility and can be used to produce tissue engineering scaffolds for cultured cells. However the synthetic scaffolds lack groups that would facilitate their modification, whereas chitosan has extensive active amide and hydroxyl groups which would allow it to be subsequently modified for the attachment of peptides, proteins and drugs....